If I Had A HammerBasic Books, 1989 M03 30 - 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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... At a moment of apparent triumph , the habits of sectarianism reasserted themselves , and he squandered his long - sought opportunity to re- make the American Left . Max Shachtman and the Trotskyist Movement One of the few 37.
... At a moment of apparent triumph , the habits of sectarianism reasserted themselves , and he squandered his long - sought opportunity to re- make the American Left . Max Shachtman and the Trotskyist Movement One of the few 37.
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... sought to do so on their own terms . In an early issue of Dissent Howe wrote on " The Problem of American Power . " 66 The central fact is that we continue to live in a revolutionary age . . . . Every- where except in the United States ...
... sought to do so on their own terms . In an early issue of Dissent Howe wrote on " The Problem of American Power . " 66 The central fact is that we continue to live in a revolutionary age . . . . Every- where except in the United States ...
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... They wanted to retain the close bonds they had formed during their imprisonment ; they sought to withdraw from the compromises of living and working in a militarized econ- omy ; and they hoped to create a working model 134 If I Had a ...
... They wanted to retain the close bonds they had formed during their imprisonment ; they sought to withdraw from the compromises of living and working in a militarized econ- omy ; and they hoped to create a working model 134 If I Had a ...
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The Collapse of the Communist Party | 1 |
Max Shachtman A Sectarians Progress 35 | 35 |
Dissent Journal of Tired Heroism | 77 |
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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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