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001 2014047931
003 DLC
005 20151229075930.0
008 150128s2015 nbua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014047931
020 $a9781612344904 (hardback)
020 $z9781612347509 (epub)
020 $a9781612347516 (mobi)
020 $a9781612344911 (pdf)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aJK2391.S6$bR67 2015
082 00 $a324.273/7$223
084 $aPOL005000$aPOL010000$aHIS036060$2bisacsh
100 1 $aRoss, Jack$c(Historian)
245 14 $aThe Socialist Party of America :$ba complete history /$cJack Ross.
264 1 $aLincoln :$bPotomac Books,$c[2015]
300 $axxvi, 753 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"At a time when the word "socialist" is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America's political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America's most important minor political party of the twentieth century. From the party's origins in the labor and populist movements at the end of the nineteenth century, to its heyday with the charismatic Eugene V. Debs, and to its persistence through the Depression and the Second World War under the steady leadership of "America's conscience," Norman Thomas, The Socialist Party of America guides readers through the party's twilight, ultimate demise, and the successor groups that arose following its collapse. Based on archival research, Jack Ross's study challenges the orthodoxies of both sides of the historiographical debate as well as assumptions about the Socialist Party in historical memory. Ross similarly covers the related emergence of neoconservatism and other facets of contemporary American politics and assesses some of the more sensational charges from the right about contemporary liberalism and the "radicalism" of Barack Obama. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A complete history of the Socialist Party of America, beginning with the roots of American Marxism in the nineteenth century"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
610 20 $aSocialist Party (U.S.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aSocialists$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.$2bisacsh