Learning from the left
children's literature, the Cold War, and radical politics in the United States
by Julia L. Mickenberg
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At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo. Learning from the Left provides the first historic overview of theirwork. Spanning from the 1920s, when both children's book publishing and American Communism were becoming significant on the American scene, to the late 1960s, when youth who had been raised on many of the books in this study unequivocally rejected the values of the Cold War, Learning from the Leftshows how "radical" values and ideas that have now become mainstream (including cooperation, interracial friendship, critical thinking, the dignity of labor, feminism, and the history of marginalized people), were communicated to children in repressive times...
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American Authors, American literature, Children's literature, American, Cold War in literature, History, History and criticism, Nonfiction, Political and social views, Politics and literature, Radicalism in literature, Right and left (Political science) in literature, Children's literature, history and criticism, Authors, american, American literature, history and criticism, 20th centuryPlaces
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Learning from the left: children's literature, the Cold War, and radical politics in the United States
2005, Oxford University Press
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