All-American Rebels - The American Left From the Wobblies to Today

From women's suffrage to Civil Rights to environmentalism and the LGBT movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the Left has taken on many forms and reinvented itself many times. In this book, historian Robert Cottrell provides the most up-to-date history of American Progressives.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Socialists, Wobblies, and Village Rebels

Chapter 2: Repression and the Postwar American Left

Chapter 3: Heyday of the Old Left

Chapter 4: American Radicalism and the Early Cold War

Chapter 5: Revolt of the Young (and Others)

Chapter 6: The Year of Revolution and Beyond

Chapter 7: One, Two, Many Movements

Chapter 8: Citizen Activism on Many Fronts

Chapter 9 : Resurgent Radicalism

Bibliography

About the author

Among Robert C. Cottrell's books are seminal biographies of the radical journalist I. F. Stone, ACLU icon Roger Nash Baldwin, and Negro League founder Rube Foster. He also authored a book on WWII-era conscientious objectors who served as smokejumpers for the Civilian Public Service, and a dual biography of Hank Greenberg and Jackie Robinson that braided the unholy trinity of anti-Semitism, racism, and baseball. Cottrell's most recent works include Drugs, Sex, and Rock 'n Roll: The Rise of America's 1960s Counterculture and 1968: The Rise and Fall of the New American Revolution (both published by R & L). He is currently completing another retrospective of the 1960s, highlighting the theme of empowerment.

Product details

• Authors: Robert C. Cottrell, Cottrell Robert C.
• Assisted by: Smith John David (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2024
• EAN: 9781538199985
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-9998-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; USA, HISTORY / United States / 21st Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, General and world history, History of the Americas