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ISBN10: 0809047977, ISBN13: 9780809047970, [publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'Reading this book revives the spirit of civic action today for those who are unjustifiably forlorn about overcoming injustice.'-Ralph NaderAn on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personalThe 1960s are widely seen as the high tide of political activism in the United States. According to this view, Americans retreated to the private realm after the tumult of the civil rights and antiwar movements, and on the rare occasions when they did take action, it was mainly to express their wish to be left alone by government-as recommended by Ronald Reagan and the ascendant New Right. In fact, as Michael Stewart Foley shows in Front Porch Politics, this understanding of post-1960s politics needs drastic revision. On the community level, the 1970s and 1980s witnessed an unprecedented upsurge of innovative and impassioned grass roots political activity. In Southern California and on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, tenants challenged landlords with sit-ins and referenda; in the upper Midwest, farmers vandalized power lines and mobilized tractors to protect their land; and in the deindustrializing cities of the Rust Belt, laid-off workers boldly claimed the right to own their idled factories. Meanwhile, activists fought to defend the traditional ...
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