American Dreamers How the Left Changed a Nation

Name: American Dreamers How the Left Changed a Nation
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ISBN: 9780307279194

ISBN-10: 0307279197

ISBN-13: 9780307279194

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Kazin

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A panoramic yet intimate history of the American left—of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who have fought for a more just and humane society, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky—that gives us a revelatory new way of looking at two centuries of American politics and culture.Michael Kazin—one of the most respected historians of the American left working today—takes us from abolitionism and early feminism to the labor struggles of the industrial age, through the emergence of anarchists, socialists, and communists, right up to the New Left in the 1960s and ’70s. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been, in the…

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List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/4/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.91" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: What Difference Did It Make?



Freedom Songs, 1820s-1840s



The Halfway Revolution, 1840s-1870s



The Salvation of Labor, 1870s-1890s



A Tale of Three Socialisms, 1890s-1920s



The Paradox of American Communism, 1920s-1950s



Not with My Life, You Don't, 1950s-1980s



Rebels Without a Movement, 1980s-2010


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Index