The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History - Hardcover

Ross, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1612344909 ISBN 13: 9781612344904

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2015

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"Not only does Jack Ross cover the history of the [Socialist Party of America] and its leading adherents, he also offers an analysis of socialism's rise, decline, and persistence as a marginal movement in the United States that is more complete and original than that of any other scholars of the political left. . . . This history deserves the attention and respect of every reader."--Melvyn Dubofsky, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of history and sociology at Binghamton University, SUNY, and coauthor of John L. Lewis: A Biography-- (10/15/2014) "Jack Ross has performed a prodigious and provocative feat of recovery and historical interpretation. In Ross's telling, the Socialist Party of America is not just a dreary dress rehearsal for Cold War liberalism or neoconservatism but rather, at its best, a living, breathing embodiment of populist American radicalism."--Bill Kauffman, author of Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism-- (10/15/2014) "There have been books before on the history of the American Socialist Party, but none that I know of takes the story from the party's roots in the late nineteenth century through its devolution after World War II into Michael Harrington's Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and the proto-conservative Social Democrats USA. Ross tries to answer the difficult question of why the American Socialists never became a major party, providing an important history not only of the American left but of the right as well."--John B. Judis, senior writer for the National Journal-- (10/15/2014)

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At a time when the word "socialist" is but one of numerous political epithets, divorced from its historical context in America's political history, The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History presents a new, mature understanding of America's most important minor political party of the twentieth century. From its origins in the Labor and Populist movements at the end of the nineteenth century, to its heyday under the charismatic Eugene V. Debs and persistence through the Depression and Second World War under the steady leadership of "America's conscience," Norman Thomas, The Socialist Party of America guides readers through the Socialist party's twilight, ultimate demise, and the successor groups that arose from the party's collapse.

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1612344909
• ISBN 13: 9781612344904
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 824