Radicals in America - The U.s. Left Since the Second World War

Informationen zum Autor Howard Brick is the Louis Evans Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism (1986), Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (1998) and Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought (2006). Christopher Phelps is associate professor of American history at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist (1997) and articles in the Journal of American History, The Nation, The Financial Times and other periodicals. He has received several awards for his historical and political writing. Klappentext 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.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, demonstrating how successive generations join currents of dissent, face setbacks and political repression, and generate new challenges to the status quo. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: margin and mainstream; 1. War and peace, 1939-1948; 2. All over this land, 1949-1959; 3. A new left, 1960-1964; 4. The revolution will be live, 1965-1973; 5. Anticipation, 1973-1980; 6. Over the rainbow, 1980-1989; 7. What democracy looks like, 1990 to the present; Conclusion: radicalism's future.

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• Authors: Howard Brick, Howard (University of Michigan Brick, Howard Phelps Brick, Brick Howard, Christopher Phelps, Christopher (University of Nottingham) Phelps, Phelps Christopher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2015
• EAN: 9780521515603
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51560-3
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Cambridge Essential Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / General, Political activism, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies