The admirable radical : Staughton Lynd and Cold War dissent, 1945-1970 /

"Son of famous sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd, Staughton Lynd was one of the most visible figures of the New Left, a social movement during the 1960s that emphasized participatory democracy. In this first full-length study of Lynd's activist career, author Carl Mirra charts the develop...

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Main Author: Mirra, Carl
Other Authors: Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010 (writer of foreword)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2010], ©2010
Kent, Ohio : c2010
Kent, Ohio : ©2010
Kent, Ohio : [2010]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: If not now, when? : Lynd's half-century journey for social change in the United States
  • Premature New Leftist, 1945-1960
  • Historical protagonist/professional historian : Spelman, Columbia, and a Ph. D.
  • It is a blessed community : civil rights and Mississippi Freedom Summer
  • Lynd not Lyndon : the anti-Vietnam War movement confronts the establishment
  • Mission to Hanoi : knocking on the other side's door
  • Blacklisted : academe confronts a radical historian
  • Guerrilla historians combat the American Historical Association
  • Still carrying the banner : life after the sixties
  • Introduction: If not now, when? Lynd's half-century journey for social change in the United States
  • Premature New Leftist, 1945-1960
  • Historical protagonist/professional historian : Spelman, Columbia, and a Ph. D.
  • It is a blessed community : civil rights and Mississippi Freedom Summer
  • Lynd not Lyndon : the anti-Vietnam War movement confronts the establishment
  • Mission to Hanoi : knocking on the other side's door
  • Blacklisted : academe confronts a radical historian
  • Guerrilla historians combat the American Historical Association
  • Still carrying the banner : life after the sixties
  • Introduction: If not now, when? Lynd's half-century journey for social change in the United States
  • Premature New Leftist, 1945-1960
  • Historical protagonist/professional historian : Spelman, Columbia, and a Ph.D.
  • It is a blessed community : civil rights and Mississippi Freedom Summer
  • Lynd not Lyndon : the anti-Vietnam War movement confronts the establishment
  • Mission to Hanoi : knocking on the other side's door
  • Blacklisted : academe confronts a radical historian
  • Guerrilla historians combat the American Historical Association
  • Still carrying the banner : life after the sixties