Author: Victor L. BergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Voice and Pen of Victor L. Berger
Author: Victor L. BergerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Socialism
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
Victor L. Berger
Author: Victor L. Berger
Author: United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Victor L. Berger InvestigationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegiance
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Berger was a member of the Socialst party from Wisconsin who was elected to Congress in 1919 but was also under indictment for charges that he violated the Espionage Act. The committee decided against him and his seat was rescinded.
The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger, 1894-1929
Author: Michael E. StevensPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870207776
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger provide an insider's view of congressional, labor and party politics as well as a glimpse into the marriage and family life of a prominent Wisconsin couple. Victor Berger helped create a well-organized political machine in Milwaukee that engineered his election to the U.S. House of Representatives six times and controlled the mayor's office for almost 50 years. His wife, Meta, an activist in her own right, served as a member of the Milwaukee school board and of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, and vigorously advocated on behalf of woman suffrage and peace. Mixing commentary on public affairs with family news and love notes, The Family Letters demonstrate how Victor and Meta were both interested observers as well as actors who sought to shape events in early twentieth century America.
Red Scare
Author: Robert K. MurrayPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816658331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Red Scare was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Few periods in American history have been so dramatic, so fraught with mystery, or so bristling with fear and hysteria as were the days of the great Red Scare that followed World War I. For sheer excitement, it would be difficult to find a more absorbing tale than the one told here. The famous Palmer raids of that era are still remembered as one of the most fantastic miscarriages of justice ever perpetrated upon the nation. The violent labor strife still makes those who lived through it shudder as they recall the Seattle general strike and Boston police strike, the great coal and steel strikes, and the bomb plots, shootings, and riots that accompanied these conflicts. But, exciting as the story may be, it has far greater significance than merely that of a lively tale. For, just as American was swept by a wave of unreasoning fear and was swayed by sensational propaganda in those days, so are we being tormented by similar tensions in the present climate of the cold war. The objective analysis of the great Red Scare which Mr. Murray provides should go a long way toward helping us to avert some of the tragic consequences that the nation suffered a generation ago before hysteria and fear had finally run their course. The author traces the roots of the phenomenon, relates the outstanding events of the Scare, and evaluates the significant effects of the hysteria upon subsequent American life.
Labor and Freedom, the Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs
Author: Henry M. TichenorPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752379685
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Labor and Freedom, the Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs by Henry M. Tichenor
Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs
Author: Eugene V. DebsPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Labor and Freedom: The Voice and Pen of Eugene V. Debs is a collection of writings and speeches by socialist leader Eugene Debs, with a focus on labor, freedom and the importance of the working class.
American Democratic Socialism
Author: Gary DorrienPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300253761
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
A sweeping, ambitious history of American democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists “The movement whose tangled history Gary Dorrien tells in American Democratic Socialism has deep roots in the very ‘American’ values it is accused of undermining. . . . The version of the socialist left that emerges is one that deserves more attention.”—Hari Kunzru, New York Review of Books Democratic socialism is ascending in the United States as a consequence of a widespread recognition that global capitalism works only for a minority and is harming the planet’s ecology. This history of American democratic socialism from its beginning to the present day interprets the efforts of American socialists to address and transform multiple intersecting sites of injustice and harm. Comprehensive, deeply researched, and highly original, this book offers a luminous synthesis of secular and religious socialisms, detailing both their intellectual and their organizational histories.
Red Scare
Author: Frances TurkPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452911401
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Making It in America
Author: Elliott Robert BarkanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 157607529X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
This collection of over 400 biographies of eminent ethnic Americans celebrates a wide array of inspiring individuals and their contributions to U.S. history. The stories of these 400 eminent ethnic Americans are a testimony to the enduring power of the American dream. These men and women, from 90 different ethnic groups, certainly faced unequal access to opportunities. Yet they all became renowned artists, writers, political and religious leaders, scientists, and athletes. Kahlil Gibran, Daniel Inouye, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Thurgood Marshall, Madeleine Albright, and many others are living proof that the land of opportunity sometimes lives up to its name. Alongside these success stories, as historian Elliot R. Barkan notes in his introduction to this volume, there have been many failures and many immigrants who did not stay in the United States. Nevertheless, the stories of these trailblazers, visionaries, and champions portray the breadth of possibilities, from organizing a nascent community to winning the Nobel prize. They also provide irrefutable evidence that no single generation and no single cultural heritage can claim credit for what America is.