TY - JOUR
T1 - Invitation to historians
T2 - History, the historian, and an autobiography
AU - Popkin, Jeremy D.
PY - 2010/6
Y1 - 2010/6
N2 - Drawing on perspectives he developed in studying other historians' autobiographies, Jeremy Popkin explores the circumstances that led him to become a professional historian, and the consequences of being a fourth-generation autobiographer. His parents, academics themselves, encouraged his intellectual propensities, as did the atmosphere of the post-Sputnik era and the family's Jewish heritage. The political excitement of the 1960s played its part, as did inspirational teachers, although Popkin came to see his studies as a refuge from the dilemmas of political activism. His career has been less adventurous than those of his great-grandfather, grandmother, and father, all of whom also wrote about their own lives, but it has nevertheless had its satisfactions.
AB - Drawing on perspectives he developed in studying other historians' autobiographies, Jeremy Popkin explores the circumstances that led him to become a professional historian, and the consequences of being a fourth-generation autobiographer. His parents, academics themselves, encouraged his intellectual propensities, as did the atmosphere of the post-Sputnik era and the family's Jewish heritage. The political excitement of the 1960s played its part, as did inspirational teachers, although Popkin came to see his studies as a refuge from the dilemmas of political activism. His career has been less adventurous than those of his great-grandfather, grandmother, and father, all of whom also wrote about their own lives, but it has nevertheless had its satisfactions.
KW - Autobiography
KW - History
KW - Journalism
KW - Judaism
KW - Richard Popkin
KW - The 1960s
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U2 - 10.1080/13642521003710862
DO - 10.1080/13642521003710862
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:77952537587
SN - 1364-2529
VL - 14
SP - 287
EP - 300
JO - Rethinking History
JF - Rethinking History
IS - 2
ER -