Ross, Jack, author.
[Lincoln] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
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- At a time when the word socialist is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America’s political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America’s most important minor political party of the twentieth century. From the party’s origins in the labor and populist movements at the end of the nineteenth century, to its heyday with the charismatic Eugene V. Debs, and to its persistence through the Depression and the Second World War under the steady leadership of America’s conscience, Norman Thomas, The Socialist Party of America guides readers through the party’s twilight, ultimate demise, and the successor groups that arose following its collapse. Based on archival research, Jack Ross’s study challenges the orthodoxies of both sides of the historiographical debate as well as assumptions about the Socialist Party in historical memory. Ross similarly covers the related emergence of neoconservatism and other facets of contemporary American politics and assesses some of the more sensational charges from the right about contemporary liberalism and the radicalism of Barack Obama. — Provided by publisher.
- A complete history of the Socialist Party of America, beginning with the roots of American Marxism in the nineteenth century — Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The roots of American Socialism (1876-1892) — Populism and beyond (1893-1900) — The party is born (1901-1904) — The fate of American labor (1905-1909) — The triumph of Progressivism (1910-1912) — Calm before the storm (1913-1916) — The terror (1917-1918) — Fatal alienation (1919-1920) — A new hope (1921-1924) — Changing of the guard (1925-1929) — Depression and renaissance (1930-1933) — The two-front Putsch (1934-1936) — American Catalonia (1937-1940) — Not to the swift (1941-1948) — The twilight of American Socialism (1949-1963) — Out with the old, in with the new (1964-1972) — Social Democrats USA and the rise of Neoconservatism — Democratic Socialists of America and the roots of post-Cold War Liberalism — Socialist Party USA and the radical left since 1973 — After exceptionalism — Appendix A. National officers of the Socialist Party — Appendix B. Socialist elected officeholders, 1897-1960 — Appendix C. Presidential vote totals.
Subjects:
- Socialist Party (U.S.) — History.
- Socialist Party (U.S.) fast (OCoLC)fst00546868
- Socialists — United States — History.
- United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
- History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628
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