The admirable radical
Subtitle: Staughton Lynd and Cold War dissent, 1945-1970
By: Carl Mirra ; foreword by Howard Zinn.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781606350515
Subjects: Lynd, Robert Staughton, -- 1892-1970; Radicals -- United States -- Biography; Historians -- United States -- Biography; Political activists -- United States -- Biography; Dissenters -- United States -- Biography; New Left -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Cold War; United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: If not now, when? : Lynd's half-century journey for social change in the United States; title: Premature New Leftist, 1945-1960; title: Historical protagonist/professional historian : Spelman, Columbia, and a Ph.D.; title: It is a blessed community : civil rights and Mississippi Freedom Summer; title: Lynd not Lyndon : the anti-Vietnam War movement confronts the establishment; title: Mission to Hanoi : knocking on the other side's door; title: Blacklisted : academe confronts a radical historian; title: Guerrilla historians combat the American Historical Association; title: Still carrying the banner : life after the sixties.