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American left : its impact on politics and society since 1900 /
How left-wing politics has shaped life in the USA, from the 1900s to the present day. Winner of the American Politics Group's 2013 Neustadt Book Prize . Only the American right has ever really recognised the potency of the American left. Now, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones fully details the left's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh, Scotland :
Edinburgh University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How left-wing politics has shaped life in the USA, from the 1900s to the present day. Winner of the American Politics Group's 2013 Neustadt Book Prize . Only the American right has ever really recognised the potency of the American left. Now, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones fully details the left's numerous achievements, including the welfare state, opposing militarism, reshaping of American culture, black rights and civil liberties, awakening the USA to the dangers of fascism and great public enterprises such as the late Twin Towers. Jones tells the full story of the US's left wing: how the socialists of the Old Left gave way by the 1960s to the anti-war militants of the New Left, and how they in turn gave way to a 'Newer Left' that advocated causes such as gay rights and multiculturalism. Bringing the discussion into the 21st century, he shows how the post-2000 Bush administration succumbed to the 'socialist' nationalisation it despised, and hails Barack Obama as a president for the left. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748668915 0748668918 9780748668892 0748668896 074866887X 9780748668878 |