Essays by Randolph Bourne

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A War Diary (PDF)

The Handicapped (PDF)

The War and the Intellectuals (PDF)

Trans-National America

Books about or with significant sections on Bourne

Bender, Thomas. New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1988. Has excellent sections on Bourne and the intellectual life of New York.

Blake, Casey Nelson. Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank and Lewis Mumford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Hansen, Jonathan M. The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890–1920. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Vaughan, Leslie J. Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997.

Essays in books about Bourne

Lasch, Christopher. "Randolph Bourne and the Experimental Life." In The New Radicalism in America, 1889–1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type. New York: Norton, 1986.

Longmore, Paul K. "The Life of Randolph Bourne and the Need for a History of Disabled People." In Why I Burned My Book And Other Essays On Disability. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.

Stansell, Christine. American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century. New York: Henry Holt, 2000. Contains a fine chapter on Bourne.

Walzer, Michael. "The War and Randolph Bourne." In The Company of Critics. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

The New Republic Website still maintains a superb essay with a strong focus on TNR and Bourne called "A Radical And A Patriot," by Henry Fairlie

Poems about Randolph Bourne

Dos Passos, John. 1919. New York: Harcourt Brace, c. 1932. Link to poem http://www.disabilityhistory.org/people_bourne.html.

Kreymborg, Alfred. A History of American Poetry: Our Singing Strength. New York: Tudor, 1934. (Out of print.) Contains a hyperbolic poem by James Oppenheim, the editorial leader of The Seven Arts: "He rose above his body and came among us/Prophetic of the race. . . ."

Other

"Why Talk about Randolph Bourne?" Prod. Matt Lieber, Perfs. Allan Jalon, Dean Olsher. The Next Big Thing. PRI. WNYC, New York, N.Y., 24 September 2004. Link to show http://www.nextbigthing.org/archive/episode.html?09242004.