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1963 · S13609 — Cambridge:: Harvard University Press 1963. 1963. 8vo. viii 328 pp. 12 illus. pls. index. Cloth dust-jacket. Ownership ink signature of David C. Lindberg. Fine. First edition. Frank Edward Manuel was an American historian Kenan Professor of History emeritus at New York University and Alfred and Viola Hart University Professor emeritus at Brandeis University. Frank Edward Manuel was among the most respected European intellectual historians of the twentieth century. "Manuel's wide-ranging scholarly interests inspired groundbreaking works on utopias Christian Hebraism historiography and philosophers such as Isaac Newton Karl Marx and Henri Saint- Simon. A prolific author he wrote co-wrote or edited 20 books. His most popular work Utopian Thought in the Western World written with his wife won the American Book Award. Other notable publications included The Politics of Modern Spain 1938 The Age of Reason 1951 The New World of Henri Saint-Simon 1956 The Eighteenth Century Confronts the Gods 1959 Shapes of Philosophical History 1965 A Portrait of Isaac Newton 1968 Freedom from History 1971 The Changing of the Gods 1983 The Broken Staff: Judaism Through Christian Eyes 1992 A Requiem for Karl Marx 1995 and Scenes from the End: The Last Days of World War II in Europe 2000. Even as he approached age 90 Manuel remained active. Shortly before his death he was near completion on the book Varieties of Historical Experience and in 2004 his wife published their coauthored work James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers. / Manuel was the recipient of numerous awards. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1957-58 a Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow in 1962-1963 and a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar in 1978. He was also a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Along with the American Book Award Utopian Thought in the Western World won the Melcher Prize and the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Manuel received honorary degrees from the following institutions: Union Theological Seminary 1979; Brandeis University 1986; and the Hebrew-Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion 1998." Brandeis Harvard University Press, 1963. hardcover books