History and the New Left - Madison, Wisconsin, 1950-1970 (Paperback)

Madison, Wisconsin has long been known as a dynamic cultural center and focus of political-intellectual ferment in the middle of America. This collection of essays and interviews traces the rise of an intellectual New Left from 1950 to 1970 as experienced by activists and scholars with ties to the University of Wisconsin. Its thirty-two contributors, including prominent historians, journalist-scholars, and veteran political activists, re-examine their own personal histories in different eras and draw fresh, often surprising conclusions. The city and campus of Madison provide a veritable laboratory for the study of deep continuities in American dissenting thought. Photographs and cultural documents accompany these poignant, candid oral histories. The volume explores a crucial period of Madison's intellectual life as a crossroad of history and culture. Interviews with the scholars and former students who politicized historical analysis in light of the Cold War, McCarthyism, nuclear and environmental holocaust, civil rights, and the Vietnam War, recall the debates and alliances that kept Madison in a state of ferment. Author note: Paul Buhle is Director of the Oral History of the American Left Project at the Tamiment Library of New York University and teachers U.S. History at the Rhode Island School of Design.

General

Imprint:	Temple University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Perspectives on the Past Series
Release date:	February 1991
Editors:	Paul Buhle
Dimensions:	235 x 159mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	457
ISBN-13:	978-0-87722-836-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-87722-836-1
Barcode:	9780877228363

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