TY - BOOK AU - Becker,Carl L. TI - Detachment and the writing of history: essays and letters of Carl L. Becker AV - D13 .B38 U1 - 907 22 PY - 1958///] CY - Ithaca, N.Y. PB - Cornell University Press KW - Historiography N1 - 1; On history; Detachment and the writing of history --; Review of Henry Adams' The degradation of the democratic dogma --; On writing history --; What are historical facts? --; What is historiography? --; Letters on history --; 2; On education; On being a professor --; Learning and teaching --; The art of writing --; Letters on education --; 3; On democracy; Why De Tocqueville wrote Democracy in America -- Europe through the eyes of the Middle West --; The dilemma of liberals in our time --; What is still living in the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson? ER -