Rethinking the New Left : an interpretative history /
Van Gosse.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- x, 240 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Defining the New Left -- America in the 1950s: "The best of all possible worlds" -- The New Left's origins in the Old Left -- The Black freedom struggle: from "we shall overcome" to "freedom now!" -- Challenging the cold war before Vietnam: "ban the bomb! fair play for Cuba!" -- The northern student movement: "Free speech" and "participatory democracy" -- Underground feminists and homophiles: "the problems that have no name" -- Vietnam and "the war at home" -- Black power: "a nation within a nation?" -- Red, brown, and yellow power in "occupied America" -- Women's liberation and second-wave feminism: "the personal is political" -- Gay liberation: "out of the closets and into the streets!" -- Winning and losing: the New Left democratizes America.