The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter (MIT Press) - Softcover

Rogin, Michael Paul Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262680157 ISBN 13: 9780262680158

Verlag: MIT Press, 1969

Inhaltsangabe

The late Joseph McCarthy has left a permanent mark on American political life. But the meaning and depth of that mark has been obscured. A major theme of this important study is that McCarthy did not suppress or stifle political thinking so much as he radically transformed it. A large block of American intellectuals evolved an original theory of politics in reaction to McCarthyism. Many American intellectuals found McCarthy's roots in the agrarian radical tradition―emerging from Populists, La Follette progressives, the non-Partisan League. The present study challenges the notion that McCarthy had agrarian radical roots. The book concludes by suggesting that fear of popular uprisings and radical protest has divorced political analysis from the specific issues around which protest forms. These issues determine whether mass movements will be dangerous or valuable. Ignoring the issues of politics, Rogin argues, leads to a reliance on established institutions unhealthy and unrealistic in a free society.

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Michael Rogin was Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1969
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0262680157
• ISBN 13: 9780262680158
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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