Häftad, Engelska, 2009
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An engaging be hind-the-scenes look at the lesser-known forces that fueled the profound social reforms of the 1960s Provocative and incisive , The Liberal Hour reveals how Washington, so often portrayed as a target of reform in the 1960s, was in fact the era''s most effective engine of change. The movements of the 1960s have always drawn the most attention from the decade''s chroniclers, but it was in the halls of government-so often the target of protesters'' wrath-that the enduring reforms of the era were produced. With nuance and panache, Calvin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot present the real-life characters-from giants like JFK and Johnson to lesser-known senators and congressmen-who drove these reforms and were critical to the passage of key legislation. The Liberal Hour offers an engrossing portrait of this extraordinary moment when more progressive legislation was passed than in almost any other era in American history. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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No Further Patience for Talk is the first and definitive biography of Clara Lemlich Shavelson, a godmother of the modern labor movement who spent a lifetime raising immigrant working-class women from invisibility to lasting power.Clara’s radicalism sprang from upheavals on two continents: the rise of revolutionary movements in Russia, her flight from poverty and pogroms, and the tensions between America’s democratic promise and the demeaning treatment of female sweatshop workers. Braving beatings and imprisonment, she sparked the first major women’s strike in American history with a harangue to thousands of teenaged shirtwaist girls in the Great Hall of New York City’s Cooper Union.Clara’s protests for women’s suffrage, rent “strikes” and boycotts of high-priced milk, meat, and bread during the Depression, and unrepentant radicalism at the height of the McCarthy era reveal the shifting possibilities and limits of peaceful democratic change in American politics.In our own day, when democracy appears fragile, the record of Clara Lemlich’s struggles and triumphs stand as proof that people committed to organized action for equality can make history even from the margins of wealth and power.
