Michael Kimmage
Biographic Data
| ID | 3978235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Kimmage |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimmage |
| SIGNATURE | KIMMAGE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Catholic University of America |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Debating the war in Ukraine
This essay responds to Gerard Toal’s arguments on the possibilities for diplomacy in the war in Ukraine. I suggest that Toal is correct in identifying current debate about policy options as less open-ended and wide-ranging than it could be, and than it should be. I do, however, contend that Toal minimizes the extent to which major figures in the field of foreign-policy analysis have advocated a negotiated settlement to the war. Continuing with th…
Seven Aspects in Search of a Narrative
Michael Kimmage reviews a textbook recently published by Anthony Grafton and David Bell, The West: A New History, identifying this book as a splendidly researched and written contribution both to the history of Europe and to ongoing debates about the scope, meaning, and historiographical salience of the West. This review isolates seven features of Western history from The West's narrative and analysis: a style of learning pioneered in ancient Gre…
Pandemic projections from Moscow
Gary Murrell. “The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States”
Gary Murrell’s “The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States”: A Biography of Herbert Aptheker is an exhaustively researched and fair-minded biography of an unusually controversial American historian. Herbert Aptheker had a wonderfully original historical mind, and his mid-century contributions to the field of African American history spurred a reconceptualization of all American history. In 1943 he published American Negro Slave Revolts, th…
Transatlantic Reconsidered
The Rise and Fall of the West
Only seventeen years after World War II ended, John F. Kennedy made the trip to West Germany. Speaking there in the summer of 1962, Kennedy was obviously an American president on a state visit. Yet he was something else as well. He went so far as to declare himself a Berliner, in West Berlin, immediately likening his declaration to one from classical antiquity—civis romanus sum—and implying a concordance of spirit between the Roman Empire and the…
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. In Spies We Trust
Journal Article Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence. Get access Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 297. $29.95. Michael Kimmage Michael Kimmage The Catholic University of America [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 4…
Munich / Manhattan Transfer. The Proximity of America in Wolfgang Koeppen's Tauben im Gras
This essay explores the multiple of images of America in Wolfgang Koeppen's Tauben in Gras , establishing the argument that America and Germany are not distinct countries, limited by their postwar geopolitical roles, but merged entities in this novel. Interspersed with comparisons to Koeppen's Amerikafahrt and to Kafka's Der Verschollene , which was Koeppen's ur-text regarding America, this essay analyzes the America internalized by the novel's G…
Whittaker Chambers's Witness and the Dilemma of a Modern Conservatism
Published in 1952, Witness is the memoir of Whittaker Chambers (1901–61). A former spy for the Soviet Union, Chambers was among the most influential anti‐communists and conservatives of the 1950s. He wrote Witness to further an anti‐communist conservatism. By the objective criterion of influence, Chambers enjoyed unusual success: his book was read by a mass audience and by politicians alike; it was cherished by Ronald Reagan, who brought his own …
The Rise and Fall of the West
Only seventeen years after World War II ended, John F. Kennedy made the trip to West Germany. Speaking there in the summer of 1962, Kennedy was obviously an American president on a state visit. Yet he was something else as well. He went so far as to declare himself a Berliner, in West Berlin, immediately likening his declaration to one from classical antiquity—civis romanus sum—and implying a concordance of spirit between the Roman Empire and the…
Whittaker Chambers's Witness and the Dilemma of a Modern Conservatism
Published in 1952, Witness is the memoir of Whittaker Chambers (1901–61). A former spy for the Soviet Union, Chambers was among the most influential anti‐communists and conservatives of the 1950s. He wrote Witness to further an anti‐communist conservatism. By the objective criterion of influence, Chambers enjoyed unusual success: his book was read by a mass audience and by politicians alike; it was cherished by Ronald Reagan, who brought his own …
Munich / Manhattan Transfer. The Proximity of America in Wolfgang Koeppen's Tauben im Gras
This essay explores the multiple of images of America in Wolfgang Koeppen's Tauben in Gras , establishing the argument that America and Germany are not distinct countries, limited by their postwar geopolitical roles, but merged entities in this novel. Interspersed with comparisons to Koeppen's Amerikafahrt and to Kafka's Der Verschollene , which was Koeppen's ur-text regarding America, this essay analyzes the America internalized by the novel's G…
The Rise and Fall of the West
Only seventeen years after World War II ended, John F. Kennedy made the trip to West Germany. Speaking there in the summer of 1962, Kennedy was obviously an American president on a state visit. Yet he was something else as well. He went so far as to declare himself a Berliner, in West Berlin, immediately likening his declaration to one from classical antiquity—civis romanus sum—and implying a concordance of spirit between the Roman Empire and the…
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. In Spies We Trust
Journal Article Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence. Get access Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones. In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 297. $29.95. Michael Kimmage Michael Kimmage The Catholic University of America [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 4…
Gary Murrell. “The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States”
Gary Murrell’s “The Most Dangerous Communist in the United States”: A Biography of Herbert Aptheker is an exhaustively researched and fair-minded biography of an unusually controversial American historian. Herbert Aptheker had a wonderfully original historical mind, and his mid-century contributions to the field of African American history spurred a reconceptualization of all American history. In 1943 he published American Negro Slave Revolts, th…
Transatlantic Reconsidered
Pandemic projections from Moscow
Seven Aspects in Search of a Narrative
Michael Kimmage reviews a textbook recently published by Anthony Grafton and David Bell, The West: A New History, identifying this book as a splendidly researched and written contribution both to the history of Europe and to ongoing debates about the scope, meaning, and historiographical salience of the West. This review isolates seven features of Western history from The West's narrative and analysis: a style of learning pioneered in ancient Gre…
Debating the war in Ukraine
This essay responds to Gerard Toal’s arguments on the possibilities for diplomacy in the war in Ukraine. I suggest that Toal is correct in identifying current debate about policy options as less open-ended and wide-ranging than it could be, and than it should be. I do, however, contend that Toal minimizes the extent to which major figures in the field of foreign-policy analysis have advocated a negotiated settlement to the war. Continuing with th…
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