Making History : : The American Left and the American Mind / / Richard Flacks.
Explores the potentiality for popular participation and social responsibility in United States society with two goals; to increase the willingness of people to take responsibility for the direction of society, and to promote the restructuring of society where citizens are empowered to make history.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1988] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 1988 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- An Introduction
- 1. History and the Everyday
- 2. Making Life, Not History: Some Generalizations About How Americans Treat Politics
- 3. Making History To Make Life: Everyday Life as the Seedbed of Political Action
- 4. Struggling for the Better Day: The Left Tradition in American History
- 5. Someday We’ve Got To Get Organized: Why the Left Is Not a Party
- 6. Making History Democratic: Revitalizing the Tradition of the Left
- A Final Word
- Bibliographical Notes
- References
- Index