Michael Kazin: American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, Knopf
A panoramic yet intimate history of the American left—of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who have fought for a more just and humane society, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky—that gives us a revelatory new way of looking at two centuries of American politics and culture.
Michael Kazin—one of the most respected historians of the American left working today—takes us from abolitionism and early feminism to the labor struggles of the industrial age, through the emergence of anarchists, socialists, and communists, right up to the New Left in the 1960s and ’70s. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been, in the traditional view, a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Kazin tells a new history: one in which many of these movements, although they did not fully succeed on their own terms, nonetheless made lasting contributions to American society that led to equal opportunity for women, racial minorities, and homosexuals; the celebration of sexual pleasure; multiculturalism in the media and the schools; and the popularity of books and films with altruistic and antiauthoritarian messages.
The Unacknowledged Victories of the American LeftBy BEVERLY GAGE, Yale University, New York Times September 16, 2011 “American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation,” by Michael Kazin
Howard Brick, Washington Post
The author argues that the history of the American left is not a history of failureBy Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times September 25, 2011
Left o liberal, la fine del sogno americano
Left o liberal, la fine del sogno americano
Un libro di Michael Kazin sulla storia della sinistra Usa dall’800 a oggi e sulla sua capacità di influire sulla società
Massimo Faggioli Europa 16 dicembre 2011
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