Jeffreys-Jones Rhodri, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

American Left (eBook, PDF)

Its Impact on Politics and Society since 1900

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Conservatives argue that left-wing politics has had an excessive influence in the USA, but few others extend that credit. Now, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones tells the full story of the left's numerous achievements, from effective opposition to militarism to the winning of racial justice. He shows how the socialists of the Old Left gave way by the 1960s to the anti-war militants of the New Left, who in turn helped spawn a 'Newer Left' that moved beyond the by now largely realised socialist agenda. Post-2000, the Bush administration succumbed to the socialism it despised, and now Barack Obama is hailed as a president for the Left.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748668892
• Artikelnr.: 72430880

Autorenporträt

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Edinburgh. He took his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and has been a postdoctoral fellow and visiting professor at the Universities of Harvard and Toronto. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Changing Differences: Women and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy and Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War.