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Author:
Mirra, Carl
Title:
The admirable radical : Staughton Lynd and Cold War dissent, 1945-1970 / Carl Mirra ; foreword by Howard Zinn.
Publisher:
Kent State University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
xvi, 224 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Lynd, Robert Staughton,--1892-1970.
Radicals--United States--Biography.
Historians--United States--Biography.
Political activists--United States--Biography.
Dissenters--United States--Biography.
New Left--United States--History--20th century.
Social movements--United States--History--20th century.
Cold War
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: If not now, when? Lynd's half-century journey for social change in the United States -- Premature New Leftist, 1945-1960 -- Historical protagonist/professional historian : Spelman, Columbia, and a Ph.D. -- It is a blessed community : civil rights and Mississippi Freedom Summer -- Lynd not Lyndon : the anti-Vietnam War movement confronts the establishment -- Mission to Hanoi : knocking on the other side's door -- Blacklisted : academe confronts a radical historian -- Guerrilla historians combat the American Historical Association -- Still carrying the banner : life after the sixties.
ISBN:
160635051X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781606350515 (hbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)467925403
LCCN:
2009047148
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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