The Rise and Fall of the American Left
Born in America, the American Left was nurtured by intellectuals and activists who read Jefferson and Whitman before they read Marx or Mao. One lesson this brilliant history teaches us is that the fury of radical innocence and wounded idealism so peculiar to American intellectual history springs from native soil. Nor is the American Left a single phenomenon but four surprising eruptions throughout the past century: The Lyrical Left, of the First World War years; the Old Left, driven by the legacy of World War I, the promise of socialism, and the Great Depression; the New Left of the 1960s, combining a revolt against the banalities of middle-c…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-30917-1
- EAN: 9780393309171
- Produktnummer: 3818328
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 436 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.1 cm x D3.7 cm 559 g
- Auflage: Revised
- Gewicht: 559
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John Patrick Diggins is the author of The Rise and Fall of the American Left and The Proud Decades: 1941-1960, in addition to biographies of John Adams and Max Weber. He is a distinguished professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He lives in New York City.
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