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Great. I'm starting work on the upcoming Series "Sons Of Liberty" and wanted to get my knowledge correct. Thanks folks! On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > 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 > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
