American dreamers
Subtitle: how the left changed a nation
By: by Michael Kazin
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780307266286
Subjects: Social conditions; Radicalism; Social change; History
Description: A panoramic history of liberal politics in America analyzes the impact of major movements throughout the past two centuries, from abolitionism and industrial-age labor disputes to the civil-rights movement and the emergence of alternative political groups.
Table of contents: title: Freedom songs, 1820s-1840s; title: The half-way revolution, 1840s-1870s; title: The salvation of labor, 1870s-1890s; title: A tale of three socialisms, 1890s-1920s; title: The paradox of American communism, 1920s-1950s; title: Not with my life, you don't, 1950s-1980s; title: Rebels without a movement, 1980s- present.