Ebook: Why America Needs a Left A Historical Argument
Author: Zaretsky Eli
- Tags: (BISAC Subject Heading)POL000000, (Produktform)Electronic book text, USA /Politische Theorie Geschichtsschreibung, Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, (VLB-Produktgruppen)TN000, (VLB-WN)9737: Nonbooks PBS / Politikwissenschaft/Vergleichende und internationale Politikwissenschaft
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- City: New York;NY
- Edition: 1., Auflage
- Language: English
- epub
The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited. In this brilliant new book, Eli Zaretsky rethinks the idea by examining three key moments in American history: the Civil War, the New Deal and the range of New Left movements in the 1960s and after including the civil rights movement, the women's movement and gay liberation.In each period, he argues, the active involvement of the left - especially its critical interaction with mainstream liberalism - proved indispensable. American liberalism, as represented by the Democratic Party, is necessarily spineless and ineffective without a left. Correspondingly, without a strong liberal center, the left becomes sectarian, authoritarian, and worse.
Written in an accessible way for the general reader and the undergraduate student, this book provides a fresh perspective on American politics and political history. It has often...