{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-left-paperback","title":"The Rise and Fall of the American Left - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Patrick Diggins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in America, the American Left was nurtured by intellectuals and activists who read Jefferson and Whitman before they read Marx or Mao. One lesson this brilliant history teaches us is that the fury of radical innocence and wounded idealism so peculiar to American intellectual history springs from native soil. Nor is the American Left a single phenomenon but four surprising eruptions throughout the past century: \u003cem\u003eThe Lyrical Left\u003c\/em\u003e, of the First World War years; the \u003cem\u003eOld Left\u003c\/em\u003e, driven by the legacy of World War I, the promise of socialism, and the Great Depression; the \u003cem\u003eNew Left\u003c\/em\u003e of the 1960s, combining a revolt against the banalities of middle-class life with civil rights fervor and protest against the war in Vietnam; and now contemporary \u003cem\u003eAcademic Left\u003c\/em\u003e, seeking both to question the traditional values of the West and to embrace the causes of women and minorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in America, the American Left was nurtured by intellectuals and activists who read Jefferson and Whitman before they read Marx or Mao. One lesson this brilliant history teaches us is that the fury of radical innocence and wounded idealism so peculiar to American intellectual history springs from native soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 436\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 8.16 x 5.53 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45986149892293,"sku":"9780393309171","price":37.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/P87hfTBV899780393309171.webp?v=1774029149","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-american-left-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}