Essays highlighting socialist and left-wing traditions that helped shape US history in the direction of "liberty and justice for all".
Über den Autor
Paul Le Blanc, Professor of History at La Roche College, is author of A Short History of the U.S. Working Class; Work and Struggle: Voices of U.S. Labor Radicalism; and Choice Award winner A Freedom Budget for All Americans.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Engaging with History
2. Socialism in the United States: Absent and Latent
3. Haymarket Revolutionaries: Albert Parsons and His Comrades
4. Brookwood Labor College
5. U.S. Labor Vanguards in the 1930s
6. Remembering Ruth Querio
7. The Marxism of C.L.R. James
8. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Christian Core, Socialist Bedrock
9. Revolutionary Road, Partial Victory: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
10. Reluctant Memoir of the 1950s and 1960s
11. Triumphant Arc of U.S. Conservatism
12. New Left and Beyond
13. Making Sense of Trotskyism in the United States
14. Revolutionary Redemption
15. Occupy: Ancestors and Descendants
Klappentext
Essays highlighting socialist and left-wing traditions that helped shape US history in the direction of “liberty and justice for all".
