Mickey Flacks, Dick Flacks

Making History / Making Blintzes

How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America

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Produktbeschreibung

This book chronicles the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard and Miriam Flacks. Their story, rooted in ‘old left’ childhoods, shaped by the sixties New Left, and culminating in intellectual and community leadership, is a valuable first-hand account of  how progressive American activism has evolved over the last 100 years.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 160mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780813589220
• ISBN-10: 0813589223
• Artikelnr.: 51962018

Autorenporträt

MIRIAM FLACKS is a social activist and a researcher in biology. She is the coauthor of Children of a Vanished World. RICHARD FLACKS is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also the author of numerous books, including Making History: The American Left and the American Mind.   

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword vii
1 Sonia Hartman 1
2 A Red Diaper Baby: Mickey’s Story 12
3 Mildred Flacks 34
4 The House I Lived In: Dick’s Story 54
5 Coming of Age in the Fifties 72
6 Starting out in the Sixties 96
7 Our Sixties: Blowin’ in the Wind 155
8 Our Sixties: Making History Together 179
9 Our Sixties: Some Scenes from the Theater of “Revolution” 237
10 Our Sixties: 1968 and Beyond 253
11 Moving to California 309
12 A Long March? 348
13 Socialism in One City 364
14 Confessions of a Tenured Radical 395
15 Playing for Change 434
16 Some Things
We’ve Learned about What’s Left 451
17 Trump Time 463
18 Last Words 468
Acknowledgments 477
Notes 479
Index