When the Old Left Was Young Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 |
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| Author:
| Cohen, Robert |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-511136-1 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1997 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $98.00 |
Book Description:
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Adding to the emerging portrait of political life in the 1930s, this book offers the first comprehensive history of the first American mass student insurgency, led primarily by young Communists, which was both an antiwar campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New Dealers.
Adding to the emerging portrait of political life in the 1930s, this book offers the first comprehensive history of the first American mass student insurgency, led primarily by young Communists, which was both an antiwar campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New Dealers.