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Biography (1920)
'''Randolph Silliman Bourne''' (1886 - 1918) was a left wing academic, who was best known for his phrase "War is the health of the State".<ref>[https://mises.org/library/bourne-war Bourne of War]</ref>
'''Randolph Silliman Bourne''' (May 30, 1886 - December 22, 1918) was a left wing academic who was best known for his phrase "War is the health of the State".<ref>[https://mises.org/library/bourne-war Bourne of War]</ref>
==Early Life==
==Early Life==
Randolph S. Bourne was educated at Columbia University and has traveled and studied in Europe.
Randolph S. Bourne was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, May 30, 1886. Bourne went to the public schools in his native town, and then for some time earned his living as an assistant to a manufacturer of automatic piano music. In 1909 he entered Columbia, graduating in 1913 as holder of the Gilder Fellowship, which enabled him to spend a year of study and investigation in Europe.
==Literary Work==
==Literary Work==
He was one of the more important of the younger contributors to American magazines on social and political movements and on education. His most important books are "Youth and Life" (1913) and "Education and Living" (1917). His work "''Trans-National America''" is a discussion on the assimilation of the immigrant into American life which has come to be referred to as the "[[Melting pot]]" - a concept that Bourne did not hold in high regard.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zbb4O82RUwQC&pg=PA343 World War Issues and Ideals: Readings in Contemporary History and Literature], Trans-National America</ref>
He was one of the more important of the younger contributors to American magazines on social and political movements and on education. His most important books are "Youth and Life" (1913) and "Education and Living" (1917).
In 1911 he had begun contributing to ''The Atlantic Monthly'', and his first book, "Youth and Life," a volume of essays, appeared in 1913. He was a member of the contributing staff of [[The New Republic]] during its first three years; later he was a contributing editor of ''The Seven Arts'' and ''The Dial''. He had published, in addition to his first collection of essays and a large number of miscellaneous articles and book reviews, two other books, "Education and Living" and "The Gary Schools." At the time of his death he was engaged on a novel and a study of the political future titled "The State".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jFxaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR9 History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays]</ref>
===Transnationalism===
His work "''Trans-National America''" is a discussion on the assimilation of the immigrant into American life which has come to be referred to as the "[[Melting pot]]" - a concept that Bourne did not hold in high regard.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zbb4O82RUwQC&pg=PA343 World War Issues and Ideals: Readings in Contemporary History and Literature], Trans-National America</ref>
==Death==
He died in New York, December 22, 1918.
==See Also==
==See Also==