The American Radical

Author : Mary Jo Buhle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136606602
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The American Radical written by Mary Jo Buhle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Radical tells the story of American democracy from the late 18th century to the present through the lives of the women and men who have fought to advance it.

Author : D. D. Guttenplan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810128314
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book American Radical written by D. D. Guttenplan and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Front columnist and New Deal propagandist, fearless opponent of McCarthyism and feared scourge of official liars, I. F. Stone (1907–1989)—magnetic, witty, indefatigable—left a permanent mark on our politics and culture. A college dropout, he was already an influential newsman by the age of twenty-five, enjoying extraordinary access to key figures in Washington and New York. Guttenplan finds the key to Stone’s achievements throughout his singular career—not just in the celebrated I. F. Stone’s Weekly—lay in the force and passion of his political commitments. Stone’s calm and forensic yet devastating reports on American politics and institutions sprang from a radical faith in the long-term prospects for American democracy. In an era when the old radical questions—about war, the economy, health care, and the right to dissent—are suddenly new again, Guttenplan’s lively, provocative book makes clear why so many of Stone’s pronouncements have acquired the force of prophecy.

Author : Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 9781565846821
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Radical Reader written by Timothy Patrick McCarthy and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings by various authors which help explore the persistence and significance of the American radical tradition throughout history.

Author : Joseph Robert Conlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The American Radical Press, 1880-1960 written by Joseph Robert Conlin and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The American Radical Press written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. R. Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503598065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book American Radical written by H. R. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What this all adds up to is the reestablishment of "freedom"--freedom to be ourselves, to have the right to our feelings, to have the right to our own thoughts, to have the right to free speech on whatever it is that we have to say and to say it whenever and wherever we find ourselves, to have the right to see the truth in all things as we are able to perceive it, and to deliberately recognize the reality that surrounds us as we engage in the continual struggle for genuineness. "Keeping it real" is good for all people without this faculty, fantasy, and prevarication takeover. Our culture is our social environment. We need to have the power and the will to protect it. It is the womb of our civilization. Our innately personal ideals as well as our interpersonal social norms, mores, and colloquialism--our national integrity is being cancelled out by the corrupt regime in Congress and the federal courts. We all have the right to live within the society and culture we were born into at the very least--the right to our own individuality, to our own opinions, and to express our love of who and what we are. Unfortunately, the current phase that the federal government has lapsed into is one of denying all of these rights to the degree that the Bill of Rights is superseded. Citizenship has become superfluous. It is time to get radical. It is past time for citizens to revolt. Otherwise, this will soon become no different than any other oppressed country with the federal tyranny of the D. C. Treason Regime.

Author : Harvey J. Kaye
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789043565
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Take Hold of Our History written by Harvey J. Kaye and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteen essays and speeches in Take Hold of Our History render a manifesto – a call to remember, redeem, and embrace the American radical story and tradition in favor of cultivating American historical memory and imagination and making America radical once again. For too long we have allowed the right to hijack the past and suppress, efface, lie about, and/or appropriate the essentially radical story of America from the struggles of the Revolution to those of the Age of Roosevelt and the 1960s. And no less tragically, we on the left, apparently haunted by the worst of our national experience, have turned our back on our own story and deferred to the tales of conservatives and reactionaries. Fleeing from the past, we merely compound the tragedies and ironies of American history, for we turn our backs on both the nation’s democratic creed and radical imperative, but also the struggles from the bottom up, the struggles in which working people and others have laid hold of America’s revolutionary promise and succeeded in making the United States freer, more equal and more democratic, at times, radically so. As Bill Moyers put it in 2008: “Here in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes America’s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time.” The time has come for us to advance that narrative.

Author : Howard Brick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521731331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Radicals in America written by Howard Brick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation. Written with clarity and verve, Radicals in America shows how radical leftists, while often marginal or ostracized, could assume a catalytic role as effective organizers in mass movements, fostering the imagination of alternative futures. Beginning with the Second World War, Radicals in America extends all the way down to the present, making it the first comprehensive history of radicalism to reach beyond the sixties. From the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, its coverage extends to the Battle of Seattle and Occupy Wall Street. Each chapter begins with a particular life story, including a Harlem woman deported in the McCarthy era, a gay Japanese-American opponent of the Vietnam War, and a Native American environmentalist, vignettes that bring to life the personal within the political.

Author : Will Kaufman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036026
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Woody Guthrie, American Radical written by Will Kaufman and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Joe Klein's Woody Guthrie and Ed Cray's Ramblin' Man capture Woody Guthrie's freewheeling personality and his empathy for the poor and downtrodden, Kaufman is the first to portray in detail Guthrie's commitment to political radicalism, especially communism. Drawing on previously unseen letters, song lyrics, essays, and interviews with family and friends, Kaufman traces Guthrie's involvement in the workers' movement and his development of protest songs. He portrays Guthrie as a committed and flawed human immersed in political complexity and harrowing personal struggle. Since most of the stories in Kaufman's appreciative portrait will be familiar to readers interested in Guthrie, it is best for those who know little about the singer to read first his autobiography, Bound for Glory, or as a next read after American Radical.

Author : Susan Rosenberg
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806535008
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book An American Radical: written by Susan Rosenberg and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a November night in 1984, Susan Rosenberg sat in the passenger seat of a U-Haul as it swerved along the New Jersey Turnpike. At the wheel was a fellow political activist. In the back were 740 pounds of dynamite and assorted guns. That night I still believed with all my heart that what Che Guevara had said about revolutionaries being motivated by love was true. I also believed that our government ruled the world by force and that it was necessary to oppose it with force. Raised on New York City's Upper West Side, Rosenberg had been politically active since high school, involved in the black liberation movement and protesting repressive U.S. policies around the world and here at home. At twenty-nine, she was on the FBI's Most Wanted list. While unloading the U-Haul at a storage facility, Rosenberg was arrested and sentenced to an unprecedented 58 years for possession of weapons and explosives. I could not see the long distance I had traveled from my commitment to justice and equality to stockpiling guns and dynamite. Seeing that would take years. Rosenberg served sixteen years in some of the worst maximum-security prisons in the United States before being pardoned by President Clinton as he left office in 2001. Now, in a story that is both a powerful memoir and a profound indictment of the U.S. prison system, Rosenberg recounts her journey from the impassioned idealism of the 1960s to life as a political prisoner in her own country, subjected to dehumanizing treatment, yet touched by moments of grace and solidarity. Candid and eloquent, An American Radical reveals the woman behind the controversy--and reflects America's turbulent coming-of-age over the past half century.