Download or read book Norman Thomas Respectable Rebel written by Murray Benjamin Seidler and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Norman Thomas written by Murray Benjamin Seidler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Norman Thomas: Respectable Rebel About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Norman Thomas written by Murray Benjamin Seidler and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Norman Thomas written by Raymond F. Gregory and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Thomas, for over 50 years a relentless advocate for justice and equality for all Americans, was convinced that socialism was the sole path to economic and political justice. He advocated the adoption of economic programs that ultimately became the fabric of American life and social security, unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws, a ban on child labor, workers' compensation and anti-discrimination laws. Fighting to relieve underprivileged workers from the extremes of a capitalistic system, he was subjected to physical attack, was tear-gassed, arrested and jailed. Unquestionably a man of great courage, Thomas also was a man far in advance of his time, anticipating an ever-expanding welfare state and an international interdependency inspired by a global economy. Six times the Socialist Party candidate for president, Thomas promoted a brand of socialism that shunned class conflict and the violence of revolution. Thomas repeatedly condemned Communist Party advocacy of violent class warfare, believing that socialism should replace capitalism through democratic means and without violence. But this fundamental difference in Socialist and Communist principles did not deter Thomas from continuing attempts to persuade others that Socialists and Communists could co-operate in attaining that goal. In this work, Raymond F. Gregory examines Norman Thomas's life from the perspective of his lifelong endeavor to attain justice and equality for the poor and the oppressed of his time.
Download or read book Norman Thomas written by Raymond F. Gregory and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A conscientious objector in two world wars and a relentless advocate for world peace as well as social justice, Norman Thomas was tear-gassed, arrested, and jailed as he stood up for the rights of minorities, immigrants, and the working poor. In addition to being a civil rights activist, Thomas headed the Socialist Party for 18 years, ran for president six times, was a pacifist, and created several institutions to advance world peace and universal disarmament. He strongly and vocally opposed the Vietnam War. This biography highlights the values that lay behind his actions, values which included aspects of socialism but which also conflicted with the views of many Leftists.
Download or read book Norman Thomas written by Murray Benjamin Seidler and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Norman Thomas written by Harry Fleischman and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1964 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selected works of Norman Thomas": p. 312-314. Bibliography: p. 311.
Download or read book Reinhold Niebuhr written by Paul Merkley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1975 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walter Reuther written by Nelson Lichtenstein and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supported by The Walter and May Reuther Memorial Fund Previously published by Basic Books as The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor
Download or read book The Cause That Failed Communism in American Political Life written by Amherst (Emeritus) Guenter Lewy Professor of Political Science University of Massachusetts and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990-09-13 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a height of almost 100,000 members during the Depression, when politicians, workers, and intellectuals were drawn into its orbit, the American Communist Party has descended into irrelevance and isolation, failing even to run a presidential candidate in 1988. Indeed, as Guenter Lewy writes in this critical account of American Communism, despite decades of feverish activity and ferocious discipline, it was a cause doomed to fail from the very beginning. In The Cause that Failed, Lewy offers an incisive narrative of the American Communist Party from the days of John Reed to the advent of glasnost. He traces its origins and development, underscoring how its devotion to Moscow and inflexible Marxist ideology isolated it from the American scene--in fact, most of its first members were Eastern European immigrants. During the left wing tide of the Depression the Communist Party reached the peak of its influence, as it joined labor unions and progressive organizations in a "Popular Front." But Lewy reveals the deceptive, antidemocratic, self-defeating tactics the Communists pursued even then, as they manipulated front organizations, seized control of political parties, peace groups, and labor unions, and enforced political conformity among members and sympathizers. He follows the Party through its inexorable decline in the succeeding decades, up to its current position as one of the last Stalinist parties left in a world of glasnost and perestroika. Lewy also provides a sharply critical discussion of the encounter between Communism and liberal and mainstream America. He examines such groups as the ACLU and SANE, arguing that the years when these organizations were tolerant toward Communists were also the times when they neglected their original purpose in favor of partisan causes. He shows how Communists have manipulated well-meaning citizens in the peace movement and in Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign. One of the great ills Americans suffer, he writes, is an overreaction to McCarthyism--an atmosphere of anti-anticommunism--which blinds them to the wrongs wrought by international Communism and makes them ignore the deceptive role played by the American Communist Party, which even today still keeps eighty percent of its membership secret. The Cause that Failed presents an intensively researched and trenchantly argued historical analysis of Communism in America. Guenter Lewy's provocative account provides a new understanding of Communism's machinations in U.S. politics, and how Americans from across the political spectrum have responded to its challenge.
Download or read book Not in Our Name written by Jesse Stellato and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not in Our Name collects and analyzes the most important antiwar speeches in American history. It is a book about the origins and consequences of America’s wars, but also about the integrity and sacrifices of those who fought on the front lines of dissent. By telling the stories of the people who spoke out in good-faith disagreement with their government and fellow citizens, Not in Our Name records some of the most compelling acts of courage in American politics and some of the most passionate, beautiful, and mighty speeches in American history. In Not in Our Name, Jesse Stellato presents the history of American antiwar speeches in a readable way that is neither pacifist nor partisan, featuring speakers with diverse backgrounds and political beliefs. By combining historical research with a review of classical Greek and Roman rhetorical theory, Not in Our Name also helps answer a fundamental question: “What makes a great antiwar speech?”
Download or read book Democrats and Progressives written by Allen Yarnell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions The History of Economic Thought written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 4507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this set, originally published between 1925 and 1990, draw together research by leading academics in the area of the history of economic thought. The volumes encompass many different schools of economic thought, with a focus on individual economic thinkers such as Friedrich Hayek, Adam Smith and Piero Sraffa. This set will be of interest to students of economics, particularly students of the history of economic thought.
Download or read book Norman Thomas a Biography 1884 1968 written by Harry Fleischman and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Church and State in America A Bibliographical Guide written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1987-08-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in a two-volume bibliography on church-state relations in U.S. history, this book contains eleven critical essays and accompanying bibliographical listings on periods or topics from the Civil War to the present day. Each essay reviews the available relevant literature, and the listings emphasize critical studies and documents published in the last quarter-century. This reference work will enable the reader to grasp the historiographic issues, become acquainted with the resources available, and move on to interpret current as well as past issues more knowledgebly and effectively.
Download or read book Voices Raised in Protest written by Stephanie Bangarth and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely book, Stephanie Bangarth studies the efforts and discourse of anti-internment advocates, and discusses the various cases they brought before the courts, as well as the arguements Japanese Canadains raised in their own defence. These critiques of the governement's removal and deportation policies were seminal examples of a growing general interest in civil rights, and would provide a foundation for rights activism in subsequent years. This book offers valuable perspective for today's debates over ethnic and racial profiling, treatment of "enemy combatants," and tensions between civil-liberty and security imperatives.
