If I Had A HammerBasic Books, 1987 M10 12 - 259 páginas "If I Had a Hammer unearths the roots of the counter-culture and political radicalism of the 60s, and shatters the myth of the 50s as a decade of deadening conformity. For the 'Old Left,' the 50s were indeed a decade of defeat and disillusionment, as Maurice Isserman demonstrates through incisive and poignant portraits of aging radicals, including Irving Howe, Norman Thomas, and A. J. Muste. But defeat also compelled a reexamination of cherished beliefs, like the myth of the revolutionary proletariat, and facing up to new political realities, like the domestic consequences of the Cold War. Old dogmas were discarded along with old dreams. Professor Isserman challenges the current notion that the radicalism of the 60s was mere psychological aberration. He also dispels a favorite illusion of the 'New Left' itself--that it was borne by immaculate conception without ties to a 'Old Left' it pointedly repudiated. Ironically, the 'New Left' drew lessons from its predecessor never intended by the 'Old Left,' while it repeated mistakes it found unforgivable in the parent it disowned. If I Had a Hammer calls into question our favored assumptions about this pregnant moment in American history." -- Book jacket |
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... German CP leader Walter Ul- bricht had criticized Stalin by name for fostering " the cult of the individual " during his years in power in the Soviet Union . Stalin , Clark suggested , was not the only one bearing responsibility for ...
... German CP leader Walter Ul- bricht had criticized Stalin by name for fostering " the cult of the individual " during his years in power in the Soviet Union . Stalin , Clark suggested , was not the only one bearing responsibility for ...
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... German workers : The events of June 17 have furnished ... an object lesson to those people who have been blandly declaring that the working class was " finished , " that it no longer had any resources of activity and rebellion.78 And ...
... German workers : The events of June 17 have furnished ... an object lesson to those people who have been blandly declaring that the working class was " finished , " that it no longer had any resources of activity and rebellion.78 And ...
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... German revolution of 1923. There was this whole back- ground of looking at things in terms of historical opportunities . It was a very special kind of training . It was also a tradition that promoted among YPSL leaders , as it had among ...
... German revolution of 1923. There was this whole back- ground of looking at things in terms of historical opportunities . It was a very special kind of training . It was also a tradition that promoted among YPSL leaders , as it had among ...
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If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left Maurice Isserman Sin vista previa disponible - 1987 |
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