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Rethinking the New Left

An Interpretative History

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  • © 2005

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  1. Van Gosse
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Defining the New Left

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 1-8

  3. America in the 1950s: “The Best of All Possible Worlds”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 9-18

  4. The New Left’s Origins in the Old Left

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 19-29

  5. The Black Freedom Struggle: From “We Shall Overcome” to “Freedom Now!”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 31-52

  6. Challenging the Cold War Before Vietnam: “Ban the Bomb! Fair Play for Cuba!”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 53-62

  7. The Northern Student Movement: “Free Speech” and “Participatory Democracy”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 63-72

  8. Underground Feminists and Homophiles: “The Problems that Have No Name”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 73-83

  9. Vietnam and “The War at Home”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 85-109

  10. Black Power: “A Nation Within a Nation?”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 111-129

  11. Red, Brown, and Yellow Power in “Occupied America”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 131-151

  12. Women’s Liberation and Second-Wave Feminism: “The Personal is Political”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 153-170

  13. Gay Liberation: “Out of the Closets and into the Streets!”

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 171-185

  14. Winning and Losing: The New Left Democratizes America

    • Van Gosse
    Pages 187-210

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 211-240
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Gosse, one of the foremost historians of the American postwar left, has crafted an engaging and concise synthetic history of the varied movements and organizations that have been placed under the broad umbrella known as the New Left. As one reader notes, gosse 'has accomplished something difficult and rare, if not altogether unique, in providing a studied and moving account of the full array of protest movements - from civil rights and Black Power, to student and antiwar protest, to women's and gay liberation, to Native American, Asian American, and Puerto Rican activism - that defined the American sixties as an era of powerfully transformative rebellions...His is a 'big-tent' view that shows just how rich and varied 1960s protest was.' In contrast to most other accounts of this subject, the SDS and white male radicals are taken out of the center of the story and placed more toward its margins. A prestigious project from a highly respected historian, The New Left in the United States, 1955-1975 will be a must-read for anyone interested in American politics of the postwar era.

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VAN GOSSE is Assistant Professor of History at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, USA.

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