History teaches us to resist, how progressive movements have succeeded in challenging times, Mary Frances Berry
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- Political participation
- Protest movements
- Political participation -- United States -- History
- Politics and government
- History
- United States -- Politics and government
- Protest movements -- United States -- History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE + Government + General
- Government, Resistance to
- United States
- Government, Resistance to -- United States -- History
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History teaches us to resist, how progressive movements have succeeded in challenging times, Mary Frances Berry
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-207) and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
History teaches us to resist
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bibliography
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987996199
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Mary Frances Berry
Sub title
how progressive movements have succeeded in challenging times
Summary
"Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times."--Amazon summary
Table of contents
Introduction : history lessons -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the March on Washington movement -- The movement against the Vietnam War -- Winning while losing : fighting the Reagan administration -- The Free South Africa movement -- A "kinder and gentler" presidency : George Herbert Walker Bush -- The adaptable president : William Jefferson Clinton -- Unnatural disasters : the presidency of George W. Bush -- Conclusion : lessons learned
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