Author: Britannica Inc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Radical Son
Author: David Horowitz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439135193
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439135193
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course of thirty years, and challenges readers to consider how they came by their own convictions.
The Amerasia Spy Case
Author: Harvey Klehr
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807822456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Amerasia affair was the first of the great spy cases of the postwar era. Unlike the Hiss or Rosenberg case, it did not lead to an epic courtroom confrontation or the imprisonment or execution of any of the principals, and perhaps for this reason, it has been largely ignored by historians. Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh provide a full-scale history of the first public drama featuring charges that respectable American citizens had spied for the Communists. It is a story with few heroes, many villains, and more than a few knaves. In June 1945, six people associated with the magazine Amerasia were arrested by the FBI and accused of espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communists. But only Philip Jaffe, editor of Amerasia, and Emmanuel Larsen, a government employee, were convicted of any offense, and their convictions were merely for unauthorized possession of government documents. Klehr and Radosh are the first researchers to have obtained the FBI files on the Amerasia case, including transcripts of wiretaps on the telephones, homes, and hotel rooms of the suspects, and they use this material to re-create the actual words and actions of the defendants.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807822456
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Amerasia affair was the first of the great spy cases of the postwar era. Unlike the Hiss or Rosenberg case, it did not lead to an epic courtroom confrontation or the imprisonment or execution of any of the principals, and perhaps for this reason, it has been largely ignored by historians. Harvey Klehr and Ronald Radosh provide a full-scale history of the first public drama featuring charges that respectable American citizens had spied for the Communists. It is a story with few heroes, many villains, and more than a few knaves. In June 1945, six people associated with the magazine Amerasia were arrested by the FBI and accused of espionage on behalf of the Chinese Communists. But only Philip Jaffe, editor of Amerasia, and Emmanuel Larsen, a government employee, were convicted of any offense, and their convictions were merely for unauthorized possession of government documents. Klehr and Radosh are the first researchers to have obtained the FBI files on the Amerasia case, including transcripts of wiretaps on the telephones, homes, and hotel rooms of the suspects, and they use this material to re-create the actual words and actions of the defendants.
Democracy is in the Streets
Author: Jim Miller
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674197251
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
On June 12, 1962, 60 young activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of The Port Huron Statement to heart--and to the streets.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674197251
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
On June 12, 1962, 60 young activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of The Port Huron Statement to heart--and to the streets.
If I Had A Hammer
Author: Out Of Print
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465031955
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"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
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465031955
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
"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
Destructive Generation
Author: Peter Collier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671701284
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Part memoir, part political analysis of an intellectual journey through the radical trenches of the Sixties. Revealing the destructive legacy of the New Left and its conseqences in America's politics and culture today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671701284
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Part memoir, part political analysis of an intellectual journey through the radical trenches of the Sixties. Revealing the destructive legacy of the New Left and its conseqences in America's politics and culture today.
How to Beat the Democrats, and Other Subversive Ideas
Author: David Horowitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Behind all the bipartisanship, dimpled-chad Democrats are sharpening their knives for 2002. But David Horowitzwhose Art of Political War helped put George W. Bush in the White Houseis back with an indispensable manual for wartime politics. If the Democrats thought wed forget who demoralized our military, eviscerated the CIA, and let America become a playground for terrorists, theyre in for a rude awakening. How to Beat the Democrats makes sure it wont be politics as usual in 2002.For Democrats, politics is permanent war. Every conflict is a contest for power, every battle is about burying their enemiesRepublicans. With racial shakedown artists and intolerant progressives rearing their heads at homeand terrorists striking at us from abroadHorowitzs uncompromising and principled commitment to freedom is more needed than ever.Horowitzs opening salvo shows why the Democrats cant be trusted with the nations security. For years, the party has subordinated sound defense policy to a radical ideology untamed even by September 11. Horowitzs unmatched strategic powers are on full display in his enumeration of the principles for a winning political campaign, which he then applies to the specific issues that will shape the 2002 election. Returning to the subject of war, he concludes with an exposi of the anti-American escapades of Noam Chomsky and his comrades of the unrepentant left.In How to Beat the Democrats, youll learn: The four fundamental principles of politics Six lessons from the near-heist of the 2000 election Democratic plans for revenge in 2002 Horowitzs bold strategy for GOP victory How the left still tries to undermine American defense
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Behind all the bipartisanship, dimpled-chad Democrats are sharpening their knives for 2002. But David Horowitzwhose Art of Political War helped put George W. Bush in the White Houseis back with an indispensable manual for wartime politics. If the Democrats thought wed forget who demoralized our military, eviscerated the CIA, and let America become a playground for terrorists, theyre in for a rude awakening. How to Beat the Democrats makes sure it wont be politics as usual in 2002.For Democrats, politics is permanent war. Every conflict is a contest for power, every battle is about burying their enemiesRepublicans. With racial shakedown artists and intolerant progressives rearing their heads at homeand terrorists striking at us from abroadHorowitzs uncompromising and principled commitment to freedom is more needed than ever.Horowitzs opening salvo shows why the Democrats cant be trusted with the nations security. For years, the party has subordinated sound defense policy to a radical ideology untamed even by September 11. Horowitzs unmatched strategic powers are on full display in his enumeration of the principles for a winning political campaign, which he then applies to the specific issues that will shape the 2002 election. Returning to the subject of war, he concludes with an exposi of the anti-American escapades of Noam Chomsky and his comrades of the unrepentant left.In How to Beat the Democrats, youll learn: The four fundamental principles of politics Six lessons from the near-heist of the 2000 election Democratic plans for revenge in 2002 Horowitzs bold strategy for GOP victory How the left still tries to undermine American defense
A Margin of Hope
Author: Irving Howe
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN: 9780156572453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A leading literary critic-and the author of World of Our Fathers-looks back on his life from the early 1930s through the 1970s. A perceptive account of Howe's intellectual growth. Index.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN: 9780156572453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A leading literary critic-and the author of World of Our Fathers-looks back on his life from the early 1930s through the 1970s. A perceptive account of Howe's intellectual growth. Index.
Media Unlimited
Author: Todd Gitlin
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805072839
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Examines our media-dominated world through the vast array of manufactured images and sounds that define our civilization, from video games to elevator music, action movies to reality shows, and punditry to Internet exhibitionists.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805072839
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Examines our media-dominated world through the vast array of manufactured images and sounds that define our civilization, from video games to elevator music, action movies to reality shows, and punditry to Internet exhibitionists.
Divided They Fell
Author: Ronald Radosh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684863626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Definition, their purpose, and their majority support.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684863626
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Definition, their purpose, and their majority support.
Reunion
Author: Tom Hayden
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Both an intimate personal memoir and a richly detailed chronicle of one of the most tumultuous periods in American history, Reunion encompasses the tragic and terrifying events of the '60s.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN:
Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Both an intimate personal memoir and a richly detailed chronicle of one of the most tumultuous periods in American history, Reunion encompasses the tragic and terrifying events of the '60s.