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Clare L. Spark (Clare Spark Loeb) is an American historian, radio talk-show host, public intellectual, and independent scholar, best known for her study, Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival, published by Kent State University Press in 2006
Spark earned her PhD in History from ??? in ???. She married Ronald Loeb, a lawyer and company executive. [1] They are now divorced. The couple had three children, Daniel, Shulami, and Rachel [2]
Political views
[edit]One journalist concluded that Spark's political awakening was inspired by the civil-rights movement of the 19??s. produced and hosted radio shows on KPFK, the Los Angeles radio station with a reputation for leftist programming. “I am deeply anti-racist," she told an interviewer, "and continue to be offended by all symptoms of proto-Fascism and authoritarian conduct”. Spark adds that her political philosophy tends to free-market leanings. She blogs on her philosophy on YDS: The Clare Spark Blog. [3]
Hunting Captain Ahab
[edit]The book appeared in [4]
Selected publications
[edit]- Spark, Clare L (1999). "Klara Hitler's Son: Reading the Langer Report on Hitler's Mind". Social Thought & Research: 113–137.
- Spark, Clare L (1990). "" Who's Crazy Now?" An Essay Dedicated to Christopher Hill". UCLA Historical Journal. 10.
- Spark, Clare and Paul C. Metcalf (1991). Enter Isabel : The Herman Melville Correspondence of Clare Spark and Paul Metcalf. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826312990.
- Spark, Clare L. (2006). Hunting Captain Ahab : Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival. Kent, Ohio: Kent State Univ. Press. ISBN 9780873388887.
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Weddings/Celbrations; Margaret Munzer, Daniel Loeb", New York Times, July 4, 2004; retrieved July 3, 2016.
- ^ Ronald Marvin Loeb Los Angeles Times (April 19, 2012)
- ^ William Cohan, Little Big Man, Vanity Fair (October 30, 2013)
- ^ Berthold (2003), p. ??.
References
[edit]- Abrams, Robert E (2003). "Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival (Review)". MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly. 64 (2): 266–269. doi:10.1215/00267929-64-2-266.
- Berthold, Dennis (2003). "(Review) Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival". Leviathan. 5 (2): 88–96.
- Horn, Jason G (2002). "Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival". Christianity and Literature. 51 (4): 675–678. doi:10.1177/014833310205100415.
- Spark, Clare L (2005). "Reviewed by Brian C. Etheridge Louisiana Tech University". Volume =7 (4): 143–145.
- Redding, Arthur (2015). Radical Legacies: Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States. Lexington Books. ISBN 9781498512671.
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