The  rise and fall of the American left
By: John Patrick Diggins.
Contributors: Diggins, John P.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Radicalism -- United States -- History.; Socialism -- United States -- History.; New Left -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-419) and index.
Expanded version of: The American left in the twentieth century.
Table of contents: title: The Left as a theoretical problem; title: The new intellectuals; title: Strangers in the land : the proletariat and Marxism; title: The lyrical left; title: The Old Left; title: The New Left; title: The academic left; title: Poetry of the past : the rewriting of American history; title: Power, freedom, and the failure of theory