American Dreamers How the Left Changed a Nation

Name: American Dreamers How the Left Changed a Nation
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ISBN: 9780307266286

ISBN-10: 0307266281

ISBN-13: 9780307266286

Edition: 2011

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 human society, from the abolitionists to Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore-that gives us a revelatory new way of looking at two centuries of American politics and culture. Michael Kazin-one of today#x19;s most respected historians of American politics-takes us from abolitionism and early feminism to the labor struggles of the industrial age, as well as to the emergence of anarchists and socialists and, later, the communists of the twentieth century; he shows how, in the sixties and seventies, the New Left fell short politically but transformed the cultural…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/23/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
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


Good Reading


Notes


Index