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On 6/11/14 1:39 PM, Ernest Leif via Marxism wrote:
Any suggestions on good, left wing reads?
I haven't read about it, sadly with and with no excuse, since 7th grade at
Central Park East Secondary School.
Thanks folks
Ernest
The Unruly Revolution
— Sakina M. Hughes
The Unknown American Revolution
The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
by Gary B. Nash
New York: Viking Penguin Group, 2005 492 pp + index. Hardcover:
$27.95; paperback: $16.
GARY NASH'S THE Unknown American Revolution fully discloses its aims to
propagate both historical and social lessons. Nash retells the story of
the American Revolution, complicating and radicalizing its core
narrative as "a people's revolution, an upheaval among the most
heterogeneous people to be found anywhere along the Atlantic littoral in
the eighteenth century."
The characters in The Unknown American Revolution "looked toward a
redistribution of political, social, and religious power; the discarding
of old institutions and the creation of new ones; the overthrowing of
ingrained patterns of conservative, elitist thought; the leveling of
society so that top and bottom were not widely separated; the end of the
nightmare of slavery and genocidal intentions of land-crazed
frontiersmen; the hope of women of achieving a public voice." (xvii)
full: http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/230
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