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Learning from the Left - Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Paperback, New)
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Learning from the Left - Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (Paperback, New)
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At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive
writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and
teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that
challenged the status quo. Learning from the Left provides the
first historic overview of their work. Spanning from the 1920s,
when both children's book publishing and American Communism were
becoming significant on the American scene, to the late 1960s, when
youth who had been raised on many of the books in this study
unequivocally rejected the values of the Cold War, Learning from
the Left shows how "radical" values and ideas that have now become
mainstream (including cooperation, interracial friendship, critical
thinking, the dignity of labor, feminism, and the history of
marginalized people), were communicated to children in repressive
times. A range of popular and critically acclaimed children's
books, many by former teachers and others who had been blacklisted
because of their political beliefs, made commonplace the ideas that
McCarthyism tended to call "subversive." These books, about
history, science, and contemporary social conditions-as well as
imaginative works, science fiction, and popular girls' mystery
series-were readily available to children: most could be found in
public and school libraries, and some could even be purchased in
classrooms through book clubs that catered to educational
audiences. Drawing upon extensive interviews, archival research,
and hundreds of children's books published from the 1920s through
the 1970s, Learning from the Left offers a history of the
children's book in light of the history of the history of the Left,
and a new perspective on the links betweenthe Old Left of the 1930s
and the New Left of the 1960s.
Winner of the Grace Abbott Book Prize of the Society for the
History of Children and Youth
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