The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type

Around the turn of the century, the American liberal tradition made a major shift away from politics. The new radicals were more interested in the reform of education, culture, and sexual mores. Through vivid biographies, Christopher Lasch chronicles these social reformers from Jane Addams, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Lincoln Steffens to Norman Mailer and Dwight MacDonald.

Author: Christopher Lasch
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 12/01/1997
Pages: 380
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780393316964

About the Author
Lasch, Christopher: - Christopher Lasch (1932-1994), professor of history at the University of Rochester, wrote, among many other works, The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics and the best-selling Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy.