History and the new left : Madison, Wisconsin, 1950-1970 /

History and the new left : Madison, Wisconsin, 1950-1970 / edited by Paul Buhle. - Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1990. - ix, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Critical perspectives on the past .

Includes bibliographical references.

Madison : an introduction / Paul Buhle -- The smoking room school of history / Warren Susman -- Learning about history / Herbert G. Gutman -- WASP and dissenter / William Preston -- I dissent / George Rawick -- Parentheses : 1952-1956 / Jeffry Kaplow -- A Madison bohemian / Nina Serrano -- A journalist among historians / Richard Schickel -- From liberal, to social Democrat, to Marxist : my political itinerary through Madison in the late 1950s / Bertell Ollman -- From the Labor Youth League to the Cuban Revolution / Saul Landau -- Studies on the left / James Weinstein -- The intellectuals and the first new left / James B. Gilbert -- New York meets Oshkosh / Lee Baxandall -- Another Madison Bohemian / Roz Baxandall -- Civil rights and history / Harriet Tanzman -- A way of seeing / Elizabeth Ewen -- In exile / Evan Stark. The intellectual new left / Stuart Ewen -- Memories from the periphery / Malcolm Sylvers -- Radicalized history / Peter Wiley -- Madison and women's history / Mari Jo Buhle -- A Madison Communist / Paul Richards -- Neighborhood politics / Michael Meeropol and Gerald Markowitz -- Radical America and me / Paul Buhle -- New left intellectuals, new left politics / George Mosse -- Harvey Goldberg / Ron McCrea and Dave Wagner -- The Mosse milieu / Paul Breines -- The tragedy of Hans Gerth / Eleanor Hakim -- My life in Madison / William A. Williams -- Appendix 1 : The historian's task / Warren Susman -- Appendix 2 : The Boy Scouts in Cuba / Lee Baxandall, Marshall Brickman, and Danny Kalb.

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University of Wisconsin--Madison.
University of Wisconsin--Madison.


Radicalism--History--Wisconsin--Madison--20th century.
Radicalism--History--United States--20th century.
Historiography--Wisconsin--Madison.
Historiography--United States.
Historiographie--Wisconsin--Madison.
Historiographie--âEtats-Unis.
Radicalisme--Histoire--Wisconsin--Madison--20e siáecle.
Radicalisme--Histoire--âEtats-Unis--20e siáecle.


Madison (Wis.)--Intellectual life.
United States--Historiography.
Madison (Wis.)--Politics and government.
Madison (Wisc.)--Vie intellectuelle.
âEtats-Unis--Historiographie.
Madison (Wisc.)--Administration.

F589.M15 / H57 1990

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