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Intellectuals in action
the origins of the new left and radical liberalism, 1945-1970
By Mattson, Kevin
- ISBN
- 978-0-27102-148-5
- Publisher
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2002.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2002
Historian Mattson (Creating a Democratic Public) breaks new ground with this informative and revealing study of the American New Left's intellectual roots. In separate chapters, he examines the philosophical and political contributions to the New Left of five people: Dwight McDonald, C. Wright Mills, Paul Goodman, William Appleton Williams, and Arnold Kaufman. The book's preface discusses McDonald's writings after he left the Communist Party in the 1940s and especially his ideas on pacif...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
