Author:
Cottrell, Robert C., 1950- author.
ImprintLanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
Imprint2020.
Descriptionix, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction -- Socialists, Wobblies, and Village Rebels -- Repression and the Postwar American Left -- Heyday of the Old Left -- American Radicalism and the Early Cold War -- Revolt of the Young (and Others) -- The Year of Revolution and Beyond -- One, Two, Many Movements -- Citizen Activism on Many Fronts -- Resurgent Radicalism: the Global Left.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
Note:From women's suffrage to Civil Rights to environmentalism and the LGBT movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the Left has taken on many forms and reinvented itself many times. In this book, historian Robert Cottrell provides the most up-to-date history of American Progressives.
