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AMERICAN RADICALS: MARGIN AND MAINSTREAM

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2016

NELSON LICHTENSTEIN
NELSON LICHTENSTEIN*
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Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: nelson@history.ucsb.edu
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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , November 2017 , pp. 913 - 927
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References

1 Kosek, Joseph Kip, Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy (New York, 2009), 1 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and for the more general influence of an ecumenical liberal Protestantism on postwar liberalism and radicalism see Hollinger, David, “After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity,” Journal of American History, 98/1 (2011), 21–48CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Flacks, Richard and Lichtenstein, Nelson, eds., The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto (Philadelphia, 2015), 3 Google Scholar.

3 Brick, Howard, Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (New York, 1998)Google Scholar.

4 As quoted in Lichtenstein, Nelson, A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics, and Labor (Urbana, IL, 2013), 168 Google Scholar.

5 Rorty, Richard, Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge, MA, 1998), 114 Google Scholar.

6 For more on this see Lichtenstein, Nelson, “Why Labor Moved Left,” Dissent (Summer 2015), 26–33Google Scholar.

7 Geary, Daniel, Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought (Berkeley, 2009)Google Scholar.