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Biography of Vernon Louis Parrington
Name: Vernon Louis Parrington
Birth Date: August 3, 1817
Death Date: June 16, 1929
Place of Birth: Aurora, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: historian
Vernon Louis Parrington
The American historian Vernon Louis Parrington (1871-1929) is known for his three-volume intellectual history of America, Main Currents in American Thought.Born at Aurora, Ill., on Aug. 3, 1871, Vernon Parrington was of Scotch and Irish descent. His father was a school principal in New York and Illinois, served in the Union Army, and became a judge of probate in Kansas. While growing up near Pumpkin Ridge, Kans., Vernon early became acquainted with the sources of agrarian discontent, and he later recalled his bitter feelings at seeing a year's corn crop used for fuel. Searching for answers, he found inspiration in the writings of William Morris, who "laid bare the evils of industrialism ... and convinced me ... that the businessman's society, symbolized by the cash register and existing solely for profit, must be destroyed to make way for another and better ideal."After 2 years at the College of Emporia, a Presbyterian institution, Parrington entered …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…its Jeffersonian partisanship is out of fashion, Main Currents continues to be read for the distinction of its literary style, perhaps the most brilliant since Francis Parkman's. Many of Parrington's individual portraits remain unsurpassed, and his description of the post-Civil War national orgy of venality and vulgarity as the "Great Barbecue" has become classic. Associated Works Main Currents in American Thought Further Reading The most extensive study of Parrington, together with an excellent annotated bibliography, is in Richard Hofstadter, The Progressive Historians (1968). Parrington is examined in the context of American historiography in Robert Allen Skotheim, American Intellectual Histories and Historians (1966). Important analyses are in Alfred Kazin, On Native Ground (1942; abridged with a new postscript, 1956), and Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950).Hall, H. Lark, V.L. Parrington: through the avenue of art, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1994. Hofstadter, Richard, The progressive historians--Turner, Beard, Parrington, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979, 1968.
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