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9780300103694

50 Years of Dissent

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300103694

  • ISBN10:

    0300103697

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2004-07-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Dissent was founded in 1954 by intellectuals angered by the rightward drift of the country but uneasy with the dogmatism they saw on the American left, and it has provoked debates about political ideas and about American and global issues ever since. This provocative book—a collection of articles published in Dissent over the past fifty years—presents essays from each decade of Dissent’s life that reveal how the magazine viewed that era, along with a new foreword to each section written by a contemporary Dissenter that provides perspective on the period.Articles include:* Norman Mailer on “Surplus Values and Mass Media”* Irving Howe on “New Styles in Leftism”* Theodore Draper on “Ghosts of Vietnam”* Sean Wilentz on “Bankruptcy and Zeal”* Michael Kazin on “A Patriotic Left”* Dwight MacDonald on “America, America”* and much more“I find these essays impressive not only in their quality but also in their surprising relevance to political life today.”—Robert Dahl, author of How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
Dissent was founded in 1954 by intellectuals angered by the rightward drift of the country but uneasy with the dogmatism they saw on the American left, and it has provoked debates about political ideas and about American and global issues ever since. This provocative book—a collection of articles published in Dissent over the past fifty years—presents essays from each decade of Dissent’s life that reveal how the magazine viewed that era, along with a new foreword to each section written by a contemporary Dissenter that provides perspective on the period.Articles include:* Norman Mailer on “Surplus Values and Mass Media”* Irving Howe on “New Styles in Leftism”* Theodore Draper on “Ghosts of Vietnam”* Sean Wilentz on “Bankruptcy and Zeal”* Michael Kazin on “A Patriotic Left”* Dwight MacDonald on “America, America”* and much more“I find these essays impressive not only in their quality but also in their surprising relevance to political life today.”—Robert Dahl, author of How Democratic Is the American Constitution?

Author Biography

Nicolaus Mills is a professor of American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College. His books include The Crowd in American Literature, Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi 1964, The Triumph of Meanness: America’s War Against its Better Self, and Their Last Battle: The Fight for the National World War II Memorial. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

introduction 1(11)
Mitchell Cohen
Fifties
foreword
11(4)
Michael Walzer
the conservative mood
15(12)
C. Wright Mills
the problem of u.s. power
27(12)
Irving Howe
america! america!
39(13)
Dwight Macdonald
from surplus value to the mass-media
52(7)
Norman Mailer
Sixties
foreword
59(4)
Todd Gitlin
a cup of coffee and a seat
63(11)
Michael Walzer
new styles in ``leftism''
74(10)
Irving Howe
the negroes, the cops, the jews
84(9)
Bayard Rustin
vietnam: strategies for opposition
93(16)
Michael Harrington
Seventies
foreword
109(2)
David Bromwich
a collective sadness
111(9)
Michael Harrington
the agonies of black militancy
120(11)
Jervis Anderson
perspectives on the woman's movement
131(14)
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
ghosts of vietnam
145(24)
Theodore Draper
Eighties
foreword
169(4)
Maxine Phillips
culture in an age of money
173(11)
Nicolaus Mills
blips, bites & savvy talk
184(15)
Todd Gitlin
good schools are still possible
199(12)
Deborah Meier
why the sandinistas lost
211(15)
Paul Berman
the feminization of poverty
226(17)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Frances Fox Piven
Nineties
foreword
243(4)
Joanne Barkan
two cheers for utopia
247(5)
Irving Howe
rooted cosmopolitanism
252(11)
Mitchell Cohen
the old welfare state in the new age of competition
263(10)
Joanne Barkan
bankruptcy and zeal
273(9)
Sean Wilentz
jaytalking
282(9)
Marshall Berman
Turn of the Century
foreword
291(4)
Nicolaus Mills
raising the cost of genocide
295(19)
Samantha Power
can there be a decent left?
314(9)
Michael Walzer
a patriotic left
323(7)
Michael Kazin
dissenting from the american empire
330(8)
James B. Rule
acting alone
338(9)
David Bromwich
list of contributors 347(6)
credits 353(2)
index 355

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