An edition of Radicals in America
(2015)
Radicals in America
the U.S. Left since the Second World War
by Howard Brick
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"Radicals in America offers the first complete and continuous history of left-wing social movements in the United States from the Second World War to the present. The book traces the full panoply of radical activist causes--socialism, Communism, the labor movement, anarchism, pacifism, anti-racism, women's rights, LGBT liberation, ecology, indigenous rights, and world social justice--in ways that show how successive generations join currents of dissent, face setbacks and political repression, and generate new challenges to the status quo, even in periods when conservatism appears to push protest to the margins of American society"--
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Politics and government, Dissenters, Radicalism, Liberalism, History, Political activists, Right and left (Political science), Social movements, Right and left (political science), United states, politics and government, 1933-1945, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989, United states, politics and government, 1989-, HISTORY / United States / GeneralPlaces
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Radicals in America: the U.S. Left since the Second World War
2015
in English
0521515602 9780521515603
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Margin and Mainstream in the American Radical Experience
War and Peace, 1939-1948
All Over this Land, 1949-1959
A New Left, 1960-1964
The Revolution Will Be Live, 1965-1973
Anticipation, 1973-1980
Over the Rainbow, 1981-1989
What Democracy Looks Like, 1990 to the Present
Conclusion: Radicalism's Future.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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