Parrington

Corregidor, when the signalman on the bridge called Parrington's attention to a black steamer which was apparently steaming at full speed from the sea toward the entrance to the Bay of Manila.

Banzai! by Parabellum Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff 1903

Parrington ended by comparing James unfavorably with Sherwood Anderson, "an authentic product of the American consciousness!"

The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012

Progressive writers like Charles Beard and Vernon Parrington railed against the robber barons and big corporations of their day and found it helpful to their cause to tarnish the Founders' reputation, accusing them of designing the Constitution to promote their economic interests.

The Visionary Generation James W. Ceaser 2011

The F.S. punted on the monks, punted on Parrington and Aplle Pie.

Tassajara: Victims of USFS Bureaucratic Incompetence 2008

Parrington died in 1929, before completing his final volume, but Kazin proposed to pick up the fallen standard and bring the story of the rise of literary realism up to date.

Literature in an Era of Social Ferment 2008

Parrington celebrated the growth of a "realism" in American literature that depicted the ordeals of ordinary lives.

Literature in an Era of Social Ferment 2008

No, Parrington was not a southern conservative, much less a blood-and-soil reactionary.

Getting States' Rights Right 2001

States 'rights, Vernon L. Parrington wrote in Main Currents in American Thought (1927), "was not an abstract principle but an expression of the psychology of localism created by everyday habit."

Getting States' Rights Right 2001

No, Parrington was not a southern conservative, much less a blood-and-soil reactionary.

Getting States' Rights Right 2001

Thus Parrington wrote that the repudiation of states 'rights by those who properly opposed slavery proved "disastrous to American democracy," because it removed the last brake on the power of big capital and surrendered the country "to the principle of capitalistic exploitation."

Getting States' Rights Right 2001