Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office
ISBN-13:
9780739174968
ISBN-10:
0739174967
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Eric Leif Davin
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
United States History
,
World History
,
United States
,
Politics & Government
,
Americas History
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ISBN-13:
9780739174968
ISBN-10:
0739174967
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Eric Leif Davin
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Format:
Hardcover
320 pages
Category:
United States History
,
World History
,
United States
,
Politics & Government
,
Americas History
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Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office (ISBN-13: 9780739174968 and ISBN-10: 0739174967), written by authors
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Our memory of Sixties New Left radicals often evokes marches in the streets, battles with the police, or urban bombings. However, the New Left was a multi-faceted movement, with diverse tendencies. One of these tendencies promoted electoral as the way to change America. In every city that was a center of New Left activism, this “Electoral New Left” entered the political arena. A surprisingly large number of these New Left radicals were elected to office: City Council, Mayor, State Senate, even the U.S. Senate. Once in office, they persisted and prevailed. Cities and places we think of today as eternally liberal—Berkeley, Madison, Ann Arbor, even the state of Vermont—were, deeply conservative and deeply Republican before the triumphs of the local Electoral New Left. These “Radicals in Power,” however, brought about a lasting political realignment in their locales, and embodied the vision of a better future that was at the heart of all New Left activism.However, the accomplishments of the Electoral New Left, even its very existence, are almost completely unexplored. Historians of the social and political movements of the Sixties have focused on anti-Vietnam War protest movements, or on the Revolutionary New Left. Radicals in Power corrects that oversight and, in doing so, rewrites the history of the Sixties and the New Left. Based on interviews with the elected New Left radicals in each of their cities, Davin details the birth and evolution of a local and regional progressive politics that has, heretofore, been overlooked.
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