| Description |
1 online resource (x, 240 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
Gosse, one of the foremost historians of the American postwar left, has crafted an engaging and concise synthetic history of the varied movements and organizations that have been placed under the broad umbrella known as the New Left. As one reader notes, gosse 'has accomplished something difficult and rare, if not altogether unique, in providing a studied and moving account of the full array of protest movements - from civil rights and Black Power, to student and antiwar protest, to women's and gay liberation, to Native American, Asian American, and Puerto Rican activism - that defined the Ame |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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New Left -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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New Left
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Radicalism
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Social movements
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Neue Linke
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Links (politiek)
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Protestbewegingen.
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United States -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140302
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781403980144 |
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1403980144 |
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