TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brick,Howard
AU  - Phelps,Christopher
TI  - Radicals in America: the US Left since the Second World War 
T2  - Cambridge essential histories
SN  - 9780521515603 (hardback)
AV  - HN 57 B849r 2015
U1  - 303.48/4 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social movements
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Dissenters
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Right and left (Political science)
KW  - Movimientos sociales
KW  - Historia
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Siglo XX
KW  - Siglo XXI
KW  - Radicalismo
KW  - Activistas políticos
KW  - Problemas sociales
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - 1945-1989
KW  - 1989-
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=44862
ER  -