Ebook: The Radical Reader: a Documentary History of the American Radical Tradition

Radicalism is as American as apple pie. One can scarcely imagine what American society would look like without the abolitionists, feminists, socialists, union organizers, civil-rights workers, gay and lesbian activists, and environmentalists who have fought stubbornly to breathe life into the promises of freedom and equality that lie at the heart of American democracy. The first anthology of its kind, The Radical Reader brings together more than 200 primary documents in a comprehensive collection of the writings of America's native radical tradition. Spanning the time from the colonial period.;Foreword; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE American Revolution; CHAPTER TWO Utopian Visions; CHAPTER THREE Abolitionism; CHAPTER FOUR Suffrage and Feminism; CHAPTER FIVE Land and Labor; CHAPTER SIX Anarchism, Socialism, and Communism; CHAPTER SEVEN "New Negro" To Black Power; CHAPTER EIGHT Modern Feminism; CHAPTER NINE The New Left and Counterculture; CHAPTER TEN Radical Environmentalism; CHAPTER ELEVEN Queer Liberation; EPILOGUE New Directions; Permissions.