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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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