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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... active members , with no functioning campus chapters . When Andre Schiffrin helped organize a SLID chapter at Yale , shortly after his arrival as a freshman in 1953 , he discovered that even the few peo- ple who came to meetings were ...
... active members , with no functioning campus chapters . When Andre Schiffrin helped organize a SLID chapter at Yale , shortly after his arrival as a freshman in 1953 , he discovered that even the few peo- ple who came to meetings were ...
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... active chapters at Yale before moving on to the SLID presidency , later referred to the group as a “ training ground for marginality . " In 1958 a SLID officer reported to the LID executive board on the results of a midwestern campus ...
... active chapters at Yale before moving on to the SLID presidency , later referred to the group as a “ training ground for marginality . " In 1958 a SLID officer reported to the LID executive board on the results of a midwestern campus ...
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... active in the early 1960s tended to take it for granted that liberal Democrats would remain in power forever - the only important issue was how far and how fast the balance of political power in the nation could be shifted toward the ...
... active in the early 1960s tended to take it for granted that liberal Democrats would remain in power forever - the only important issue was how far and how fast the balance of political power in the nation could be shifted toward the ...
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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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