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Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States
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Product Description
-- Mark Greif, Times Literary Supplement
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #680521 in Books
- Published on: 1999-02
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .71 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
Editorial Reviews
Review
...well researched and thorough. I recommend it for historians interested in the history of radicalism and the left in the United States... historians of the family and of ethnic history would also find it of considerable value. -- Mark McColloch Industrial and Labor Relations Review A compassionate, coherent and cogent narrative of an idealistic cadre of radicals, once upon a time in America, who tried to transform society from the bottom up. Science & Society Raising Reds is a most impressive approach to exploring aspects of radical childraising from the 1920s into the 1950s, the heyday of the Communist Party in the United States -- Ronald D. Cohen, Indiana University Northwest History of Education Quarterly An informative history. -- Joan Wallach Scott Lingua Franca
Amy Swerdlow author of Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s
Raising Reds is a balanced historical analysis of the politics, culture, mores, and family values of the CPUSA from 1920 to 1950. What is most fascinating is its exploration of the complex and contradictory ways in which a minority party with a high percentage of immigrants transmitted its radical politics and rigid ideology from one generation to the next.
Van Gosse author of Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left
Vital new insights into how working-class immigrants built a pluralist radical culture. [Raising Reds] humanizes Communist families by showing the multiple pulls of assimilation and preservation. A fine melding of social and political history.
