Radicals in America
Subtitle: the U.S. Left since the Second World War
By: Howard Brick, University of Michigan, Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham
Contributors: Phelps, Christopher, 1965- author
Series: Cambridge essential histories; Cambridge essential histories
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780521515603; 9780521731331
Subjects: Politics and government; Dissenters; Radicalism; Liberalism; History; Political activists; Right and left (Political science); Social movements
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Margin and Mainstream in the American Radical Experience; title: War and Peace, 1939-1948; title: All Over this Land, 1949-1959; title: A New Left, 1960-1964; title: The Revolution Will Be Live, 1965-1973; title: Anticipation, 1973-1980; title: Over the Rainbow, 1981-1989; title: What Democracy Looks Like, 1990 to the Present; title: Conclusion: Radicalism's Future.