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AMERICAN RADICALS: MARGIN AND MAINSTREAM

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HowardBrick and ChristopherPhelps, Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015)

GabrielThompson, America's Social Arsonist: Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016)

DanielGeary, Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2016

NELSON LICHTENSTEIN*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [email protected]

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References

1 Kosek, Joseph Kip, Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy (New York, 2009), 1 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and for the more general influence of an ecumenical liberal Protestantism on postwar liberalism and radicalism see Hollinger, David, “After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity,” Journal of American History, 98/1 (2011), 21–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Flacks, Richard and Lichtenstein, Nelson, eds., The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto (Philadelphia, 2015), 3 Google Scholar.

3 Brick, Howard, Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (New York, 1998)Google Scholar.

4 As quoted in Lichtenstein, Nelson, A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor (Urbana, IL, 2013), 168 Google Scholar.

5 Rorty, Richard, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge, MA, 1998), 114 Google Scholar.

6 For more on this see Lichtenstein, Nelson, “Why Labor Moved Left,” Dissent (Summer 2015), 26–33Google Scholar.

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