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Young radicals, in the war for American ideals, Jeremy McCarter

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Young radicals, in the war for American ideals, Jeremy McCarter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-351) and index

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collective biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Young radicals

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

975246761

Responsibility statement

Jeremy McCarter

Sub title

in the war for American ideals

Summary

"What does it mean to live for your ideals ... and to risk dying for them? This book tells the story of young American radicals who sensed a moment of unprecedented promise for American life--politically, socially, culturally--and struggled to bring it about, only to see a cataclysmic war sweep it away. Based on six years of extensive archival research, Jeremy McCarter's dramatic narrative brings to life the adventures of Randolph Bourne, a cerebral hunchbacked writer, Max Eastman, an activist editor, Walter Lippmann, a slippery political operative, Alice Paul, a trailblazing suffragette, and John Reed, a Communist journalist. It evokes the America they fought to create in the early 20th century, one that young radicals are still fighting to create in the 21st, through movements such as Occupy and Black Lives Matter"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

I. Commencement, or Five dreams find their dreamers (1912-13) -- II. The world is on fire and there is tinder everywhere (1914-16) -- III. Big America, or The great consummation (1916-17) -- IV. The real and the ideal (1917-18) -- V. Lonely utopia (1918-22) -- Epilogue

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