The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America

The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America
ISBN-10
023111057X
ISBN-13
9780231110570
Category
History
Pages
500
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Douglas Charles Rossinow

Description

In the 1960s a left-wing movement emerged in the United States that not only crusaded against social and economic exploitation, but also confronted the problem of personal alienation in everyday life. These new radicals - young, white, raised in relative affluence - struggled for peace, equality and social justice. Their struggle was cultural as well as political, a search for meaning and authenticity that marked a new phase in the long history of American radicalism.

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