Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:28:43 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Condit <tomcondit-AT-igc.apc.org> Subject: M-NEWS: Images of American Radicalism Images of American Radicalism Try this for size. IMAGES OF AMERICAN RADICALISM 500pp (72 color pages), with Foreword by Howard Fast. A pictorial history of the Left, from the earliest Indian rebellions to the environmental and social justice movements of the 1990s. Lithographs, paintings, photographs, cartoons, anonymous art (Karl Marx cigar boxes, political buttons, beer trays, etc), mark utopianism, Shakerism, the early labor movement, abolitionists, spiritualists, feminists, bohemians, Wobblies, socialists, birth control activists, Greenwich Village bohemians, etc., with sidebars and captions, as well as a popular narrative. Authors: Paul Buhle (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN LEFT, etc) and Edmund Sullivan (founder, Museum of American Political Life). $60 plus $6 from Christopher Publishing House, 24 Rockland St., HANOVER MA 02339 "Feeling isolated? Depressed by mind-numbing bureaucracy and spineless intellectualism? Here's a prescription: Pick up a copy of 'Images of American Radicalism.' Buhle and Co. have loaded a book chock-full of illustrations sure to inspire anyone with a heart. Even the most well-travelled radicals will find some new stuff here. It will have a place on my special shelf, along with 'Rebel Voices' and a few other special books, that I turn to frequently for ideas and inspiration." - Mike Alewitz
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