The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975 A Brief History with Documents
ISBN: 9780312133979 | 0312133979
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 10/29/2004
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"The Movements of the New Left" is a documentary history of the movements for fundamental social change and radical democracy that disrupted the United States from their emergence in the 1950s through their dispersion and institutionalization in the early 1970s. Using an inclusive definition of the New Left, Gosse tracks the development and commonalities of the civil rights and black power movements and other struggles of people of color, of the peace, antiwar, and student movements, and of feminism and gay liberation. The introduction presents... MORE
| Introduction | |
| A Movement of Movements | |
| Seeds of Dissent in the 1940s and 1950s | |
| The Movements Take Off, 1960-1965 | |
| The Cold War Consensus Cracks, 1965-1968 | |
| High Tide and Ebb Tide, 1969-1975 | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Movements Go Their Own Way | |
| The Documents | |
| Appendixes | |
| Chronology of Key Even... MORE | |
| Questions for Consideration | |
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VAN GOSSE teaches history at Franklin and Marshall College and is a longtime member of the Radical History Review Editorial Collective. He is the author of Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left (1993) and editor, with Richard Moser, of The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America (2003), as well as of numerous articles on 20th-century U.S. politics and political culture. He has served as director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas and organizing director of Peace Action, and has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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