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Title As we saw the thirties : essays on social and political movements of a decade / [by] Max Shachtman ... [et al.] ; edited by Rita James Simon.

Imprint Urbana, [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press, c1967.

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Description 253 p. ; 21 cm.
Note "Lectures given on the campus of the University of Illinois from October, 1965 through April, 1966 under the auspices of an ad hoc faculty committee. The series was entitled 'Leaders of social and political movements in the 1930's.'"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / Rita James Simon -- Radicalism in the thirties : the Trotskyist view / Max Shachtman -- The Huey Long movement / Gerald L. K. Smith -- Writers in the thirties / Granville Hicks -- The Thirties in America as a socialist recalls them / Norman Thomas -- My experience in the labor and radical struggles of the thirties / A. J. Muste -- The Student movement of the thirties : a political history / Hal Draper -- My years with Roosevelt / Burton K. Wheeler -- The American Communist Party in the thirties / Earl Browder.
Subject Socialism.
Communism -- United States -- 1917-
United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
Added Author Simon, Rita James.
Shachtman, Max, 1903-1972.
Browder, Earl, 1891-1973.

 
    
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