Radicals in America : the US Left since the Second World War /
Howard Brick (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Christopher Phelps (University of Nottingham).
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- ix, 355 p. : il. ; 23 cm.
- Cambridge essential histories .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Margin and Mainstream in the American Radical Experience -- War and Peace, 1939-1948 -- All Over this Land, 1949-1959 -- A New Left, 1960-1964 -- The Revolution Will Be Live, 1965-1973 -- Anticipation, 1973-1980 -- Over the Rainbow, 1981-1989 -- What Democracy Looks Like, 1990 to the Present -- Conclusion: Radicalism's Future.
"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--socialism, Communism, the labor movement, anarchism, pacifism, anti-racism, women's rights, LGBT liberation, ecology, indigenous rights, and world social justice--in ways that show how successive generations join currents of dissent, face setbacks and political repression, and generate new challenges to the status quo, even in periods when conservatism appears to push protest to the margins of American society"--
Social movements--History--United States--20th century. Social movements--History--United States--21st century. Radicalism--History.--United States Political activists--History.--United States Dissenters--History.--United States Liberalism--History.--United States Right and left (Political science)--History.--United States Movimientos sociales--Historia--Estados Unidos--Siglo XX. Movimientos sociales--Historia--Estados Unidos--Siglo XXI. Radicalismo--Historia--Estados Unidos. Activistas políticos--Estados Unidos. Problemas sociales--Estados Unidos.
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945. United States--Politics and government--1945-1989. United States--Politics and government--1989-