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1 online resource (489 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: "The Better Land of Socialism": Utah's Radical Roots--Mormons, Godbeites, Liberals, Knights of Labor, and Populists; Chapter 2: "Everyone Is Invited to Come and Hear about the New Gospel": An Overview of Socialism in Utah; Chapter 3: "The Destruction of Love Is the Very Genius of the Competitive System": The Rhetoric of Utah Socialism; Chapter 4: A Future "Living in the Light of a Better Day": The Membership of Utah's Socialist Party; Chapter 5: "The Gospel of Jesus and the Gospel of Marx": Christian Socialism in Utah |
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Chapter 6: "Abolishing the Capitalist System through the Ballot": Respectable Reformers--Utah Socialists in Power, 1900-1925Chapter 7: "The House Was Full, and the Band Was Out, and a Lively Time Prevailed": Utah's Socialist Culture; Chapter 8: "Socialists, with Their Tireless Activity, Distributed Thousands of Copies of Their Papers": Utah's Socialist Press; Chapter 9: "The Socialist Department of the Morning Examiner--Conducted by the Socialist Party of Ogden"; Chapter 10: "I Listened to Your Lecture and Have Been an Agitator for Socialism Ever Since": Socialist Speaking in the Public Sphere |
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Chapter 11: "Chase Socialism and the Expression of Socialist Ideas from the Streets": The Right of Socialists to Speak and the Politics of Public Space; Chapter 12: "Our Constant Effort Is to Keep Our People from Joining Such Organizations": The Mormon Church's Campaign against Socialism--Part I; Chapter 13: The Mormon Church's Campaign against Socialism--Part II: The Defense of Capital and the Construction of a Capitalist Ideology; Afterword: "It Was All Wrong. It All Had to Change. It All Had to Stop": Radicalism in Utah since 1920; Index |
Summary |
Utah, now one of the most conservative states, has a long tradition of left-wing radicalism. Early Mormon settlers set a precedent with the United Order and other experiments with a socialistic economy. The tradition continued into the more recent past with New Left, anti-apartheid, and other radicals. Throughout, Utah radicalism usually reflected national and international developments. Recounting its long history, McCormick and Sillito focus especially on the Socialist Party of America, which reached a peak of political influence in the first two decades of the twentieth century - in Uta |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Socialist Party (U.S.) -- History
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Socialist Party (U.S.) fast |
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Socialism -- Utah
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Radicalism -- Utah -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Politics and government
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Radicalism
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Socialism
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Utah -- Politics and government
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Utah
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History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Sillito, John R
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ISBN |
9780874218152 |
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0874218152 |
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9786613341464 |
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6613341460 |
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