Expanded version of: The American left in the twentieth century.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-419) and index.
Contents
The Left as a theoretical problem -- The new intellectuals --Strangers in the land : the proletariat and Marxism -- The lyrical left -- The Old Left -- The New Left -- The academic left -- Poetry of the past : the rewriting of American history -- Power, freedom, and the failure of theory.
