Radical Nomad

Author : Tom Hayden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131725323X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Nomad written by Tom Hayden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long after co-authoring The Port Huron Statement, the charter document of sixties activism, Tom Hayden completed, at the University of Michigan, an intellectual biography of eminent scholar C. Wright Mills. It is published here for the first time, along with newly written essays by Hayden and by prominent social theorists who are experts on Mills and his ongoing influence today. Hayden cogently traces Mills' scholarship and his progressive activism to the events and thinkers of earlier generations. Ideas in major books by Mills (The Power Elite, New Men of Power, White Collar, Character and Social Structure, The Sociological Imagination) can now be better understood in light of the influences of Mills during and before his time, including the impact of two world wars, the Great Depression and the New Deal, the failures of the Soviet state, and changing relations between workers and industry in America and worldwide. The book thus brings us a new and much more complete understanding Mills's political theories and philosophy. With only one previous biography of Mills in print, this book is a major contribution to our understanding of C. Wright Mills in American intellectual life.

Author : Thomas Hayden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Nomad written by Thomas Hayden and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dan Geary
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520943445
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Ambition written by Dan Geary and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologist, social critic, and political radical C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the leading public intellectuals in twentieth century America. Offering an important new understanding of Mills and the times in which he lived, Radical Ambition challenges the captivating caricature that has prevailed of him as a lone rebel critic of 1950s complacency. Instead, it places Mills within broader trends in American politics, thought, and culture. Indeed, Daniel Geary reveals that Mills shared key assumptions about American society even with those liberal intellectuals who were his primary opponents. The book also sets Mills firmly within the history of American sociology and traces his political trajectory from committed supporter of the Old Left labor movement to influential herald of an international New Left. More than just a biography, Radical Ambition illuminates the career of a brilliant thinker whose life and works illustrate both the promise and the dilemmas of left-wing social thought in the United States.

Author : Lilly J. Goren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501306359
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Men and Politics written by Lilly J. Goren and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explored through a broadly political lens, this book examines the various political themes and historical issues seen and presented on AMC's Mad Men while analyzing the contemporary appeal of a television show situated in the 1960s"--

Author : Marc Stears
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691157901
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demanding Democracy written by Marc Stears and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more democratic society has haunted the United States throughout its history. Should citizens restrict themselves to patient persuasion or take to the streets and seek to impose change? Marc Stears argues that anyone who continues to wrestle with these questions could learn from the radical democratic tradition that was forged in the twentieth century by political activists, including progressives, trade unionists, civil rights campaigners, and members of the student New Left. These activists and their movements insisted that American campaigners for democratic change should be free to strike out in whatever ways they thought necessary, so long as their actions enhanced the political virtues of citizens and contributed to the eventual triumph of the democratic cause. Reevaluating the moral and strategic arguments, and the triumphs and excesses, of this radical democratic tradition, Stears contends that it still offers a compelling account of citizen behavior--one that is fairer, more inclusive, and more truly democratic than those advanced by political theorists today.

Author : Richard Flacks
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290992
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Port Huron Statement written by Richard Flacks and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. Initially drafted by Tom Hayden and debated over the course of three days in 1962 at a meeting of student leaders, the statement was issued by Students for a Democratic Society as their founding document. Its key idea, "participatory democracy," proved a watchword for Sixties radicalism that has also reemerged in popular protests from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. Featuring essays by some of the original contributors as well as prominent scholars who were influenced by the manifesto, The Port Huron Statement probes the origins, content, and contemporary influence of the document that heralded the emergence of a vibrant New Left in American culture and politics. Opening with an essay by Tom Hayden that provides a sweeping reflection on the document's enduring significance, the volume explores the diverse intellectual and cultural roots of the Statement, the uneasy dynamics between liberals and radicals that led to and followed this convergence, the ways participatory democracy was defined and deployed in the 1960s, and the continuing resonances this idea has for political movements today. An appendix includes the complete text of the original document. The Port Huron Statement offers a vivid portrait of a unique moment in the history of radicalism, showing that the ideas that inspired a generation of young radicals more than half a century ago are just as important and provocative today. Contributors: Robert Cohen, Richard Flacks, Jennifer Frost, Daniel Geary, Barbara Haber, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Tom Hayden, Michael Kazin, Nelson Lichtenstein, Jane Mansbridge, Lisa McGirr, James Miller, Robert J. S. Ross, Michael Vester, Erik Olin Wright.

Author : Jon Frauley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000440001
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge International Handbook of C. Wright Mills Studies written by Jon Frauley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge International Handbook of C. Wright Mills Studies brings together leading scholars of the work of radical sociologist C. Wright Mills to showcase its impact across the social sciences. Showing how Mills’ thought can be taken up - and in some cases, sympathetically reformulated - to tackle problems of power and politics, it presents an authoritative state-of-the-art overview of Mills’ groundbreaking ideas and his far-reaching theoretical and methodological impact. Crucially, the volume also illustrates the value of thinking with Mills in addressing the complexities of contemporary capitalist democracies. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology, organization studies, peace and conflict studies, criminology, politics and public administration.

Author : Marcy Darnovsky
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439904545
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Politics written by Marcy Darnovsky and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the worlds of activism and academia-this volume combines social movement theory with the real experiences of activists.

Author : M. Athena Palaeologu
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781551643304
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sixties in Canada written by M. Athena Palaeologu and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary work that brings to life the events and trends of the '60s in Canada.

Author : Jim Miller
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674197251
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy is in the Streets written by Jim Miller and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 12, 1962, 60 young activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of The Port Huron Statement to heart--and to the streets.