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If I had a hammer-- : the death of the old left and the birth of the new left /
"If I Had a Hammer unearths the roots of the counter-culture and political radicalism of the 60s, and shatters the myth of the 50s as a decade of deadening conformity. For the 'Old Left,' the 50s were indeed a decade of defeat and disillusionment, as Maurice Isserman demonstrates thro...
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New York :
Basic Books,
[1987]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: a Renaissance in the 1950's?
- The collapse of the Communist Party
- Max Shactman, a sectarian's progress
- Dissent, journal of tired heroism
- Radical pacifism, the Americanization of Gandhi
- Toward a new left.