American Dreamers: Paperback version is just out — with a section on Occupy...
“One of the Best Books of the Year” Newsweek/The Daily Beast The New Republic The Progressive “Illuminating. . . . Kazin’s ambition is to illustrate and argue, and he does both with exemplary skill. ....
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The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History
Praise for The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History, One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010: “Encyclopedias are both invitations to explore and tools to find particular...
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America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
Isserman (If I Had a Hammer) and Kazin (The Populist Persuasion) are two of the keenest practitioners of the history of American people’s politics. Both came of age in the 1960s, and each has a...
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A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
In American memory, the image of William Jennings Bryan, whom the Democrats nominated for President in 1896, 1900, and 1908, has been obscured by the pathetic, evolution-bashing Bible-thumper based on...
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The Populist Persuasion: An American History
If populism now seems “something of a fashion statement,” Kazin (Barons of Labor) ably reveals its rich and textured history. Activists from varied backgrounds have sought to invoke and speak to the...
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Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the...
“Kazin’s book is about far more than the construction industry: it also illuminates the social and political history of San Francisco… Gracefully written and adorned with evocative portraits of local...
View ArticleThe Port Huron Statement at 50
The Port Huron Statement of Students for a Democratic Society, written fifty years ago this June, is the most ambitious, the most specific, and the most eloquent manifesto in the history of the...
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The protests that began on Wall Street and are spreading to dozens of American cities have been a long time in coming. Since the 1970s, economic inequality in the United States has increased, as...
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Michael Kazin on Roots of the Occupy Movement
Interview by Eve Gerber at The Browser As police confront Occupy protesters, the history professor and co-editor of Dissent magazine looks back at US leftist movements from abolitionism to Vietnam to...
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Whatever Happened to the American Left?
SOMETIMES, attention should be paid to the absence of news. America’s economic miseries continue, with unemployment still high and home sales stagnant or dropping. The gap between the wealthiest...
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