American Gandhi : : A. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century / / Leilah Danielson.

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• VerfasserIn: Danielson, Leilah,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.) :; 10 illus.

When Abraham Johannes Muste died in 1967, newspapers throughout the world referred to him as the "American Gandhi." Best known for his role in the labor movement of the 1930s and his leadership of the peace movement in the postwar era, Muste was one of the most charismatic figures of the A...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Calvinism, Class, and the Making of a Modern Radical
• Chapter 2. Spirituality and Modernity
• Chapter 3. Pragmatism and ''Transcendent Vision''
• Chapter 4. Muste, Workers' Education, and Labor's Culture War in the 1920s
• Chapter 5. Labor Action
• Chapter 6. Americanizing Marx and Lenin
• Chapter 7. To the Left
• Chapter 8. Muste and the Origins of Nonviolence in the United States
• Chapter 9. Conscience Against the Wartime State and the Bomb
• Chapter 10. Speaking Truth to Power
• Chapter 11. Muste and the Search for a ''Third Way''
• Chapter 12. The ''American Gandhi'' and Vietnam
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Index
• Acknowledgments