How the cultural revolution of the 1960s changed America.
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"Others may think of the 1960s as The Last Good Time, but Kimball has no patience with such nostalgia. He sees this decade as a seedbed of excess and moral breakdown. He argues that the radical assaults on "the System" that took place then still define the way we live now - with…
"Others may think of the 1960s as The Last Good Time, but Kimball has no patience with such nostalgia. He sees this decade as a seedbed of excess and moral breakdown. He argues that the radical assaults on "the System" that took place then still define the way we live now - with…
"The Hungarian artist-designer László Moholy-Nagy, the Austrian sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, and his fellow Viennese Victor Gruen-an architect and urban planner-made careers in different fields. Yet they shared common socialist politics, Jewish backgrounds, and experience as ref…
"This book maps the rise of a modern liberal culture in the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s. It shows how modern fiction writers responded to central concerns in liberal political thought, such as corporate ownership, reproductive rights, colorblind law, and presidenti…
"This book maps the rise of a modern liberal culture in the United States from the 1930s to the 1960s. It shows how modern fiction writers responded to central concerns in liberal political thought, such as corporate ownership, reproductive rights, colorblind law, and presidenti…
These problems--from the abortion debate to the scope of executive power--remain an indelible feature of American politics.
"Labor's Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working class mind. Networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor…
Introduction -- "A little avenue to self-mastery": the social world of working-class readers -- "All sorts of wild, impassioned talk": open forums and the working-class public sphere -- "To see and hear things that have always been there": labor's pedagogy of the organized -- Br…
Business leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people's intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America's sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Work…
"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"-- From the New York Times bestselling author of But What if We're Wrong", a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard during the greatest …