Making History : The American Left and the American Mind / Richard Flacks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flacks, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1988]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Explores the potentiality for popular participation and social responsibility in United States society with two goals; to increase the willingness of people to take responsibility for the direction of society, and to promote the restructuring of society where citizens are empowered to make history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

An Introduction

1. History and the Everyday

2. Making Life, Not History: Some Generalizations About How Americans Treat Politics

3. Making History To Make Life: Everyday Life as the Seedbed of Political Action

4. Struggling for the Better Day: The Left Tradition in American History

5. Someday We've Got To Get Organized: Why the Left Is Not a Party

6. Making History Democratic: Revitalizing the Tradition of the Left

A Final Word

Bibliographical Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88596-2

OCLC:

1100447966