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The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963

The Intellectual as a Social Type

Christopher Lasch author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:11th Feb '98

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Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to Norman Mailer and Dwight MacDonald.

ISBN: 9780393316964

Dimensions: 211mm x 142mm x 25mm

Weight: 484g

380 pages