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- catalog abstract "There was once a familiar American left. Progressive unions, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, campaigns against poverty, war and other ills - all were recently a part of our national scene. Today all are faded or gone. Now, from Michael Tomasky, one of the most intelligent voices to emerge from the American left in years, comes a stirring challenge to our nation's progressive tradition. Left for Dead examines the troubling recent history and tenuous future of our nation's once-significant progressive movements, and makes an uncompromising study of how the left has been destroyed by its own contradictions and ills - and what must be done if there are any hopes for revival. With each chapter a unique stepping stone in recent history, Tomasky traces the uneasy relationship between the left and the Democrats, the early institutionalization of identity politics in the McGovern campaign, the dead-end pursuit of welfare rights in the halls of academia, the confused and ultimately failed campaign for national health care and the ill-conceived politicking over immigration - all of which come to life with insight, freshness and candor in the pages of this book. It is from these ruinous times, however, that Tomasky finds the potential for a newly impassioned and changed American left, one that can understand all that is truly good and promising in America and can become reconnected with the hopes and the motivations of everyday people. But it is a potential that can be realized only with a dramatic break from recent years. If there is to be a recognizable American left in the next century, this thoughtful and urgent work can begin the discussion that will take it there.".
- catalog alternative "Left for dead".
- catalog contributor b9610556.
- catalog coverage "United States Economic policy 1993-2001.".
- catalog coverage "United States Politics and government 1993-2001.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social policy 1993-".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "If there is to be a recognizable American left in the next century, this thoughtful and urgent work can begin the discussion that will take it there.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Bleached Bones and Jumbled Residues -- 1. A Handful of Smoke: What Is the Left? -- 2. Marriage of Inconvenience: The Left and the Democrats -- 3. E Unum Pluribus: The Politics of Identity -- 4. Questions, But Never Answers: Welfare -- 5. Doing the Right's Work: Immigration -- 6. Faith in Something Better: Affirmative Action -- 7. Armies Unconsidered: Health Care -- 8. The Long Road Back.".
- catalog description "It is from these ruinous times, however, that Tomasky finds the potential for a newly impassioned and changed American left, one that can understand all that is truly good and promising in America and can become reconnected with the hopes and the motivations of everyday people. But it is a potential that can be realized only with a dramatic break from recent years.".
- catalog description "Now, from Michael Tomasky, one of the most intelligent voices to emerge from the American left in years, comes a stirring challenge to our nation's progressive tradition. Left for Dead examines the troubling recent history and tenuous future of our nation's once-significant progressive movements, and makes an uncompromising study of how the left has been destroyed by its own contradictions and ills - and what must be done if there are any hopes for revival.".
- catalog description "There was once a familiar American left. Progressive unions, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, campaigns against poverty, war and other ills - all were recently a part of our national scene. Today all are faded or gone.".
- catalog description "With each chapter a unique stepping stone in recent history, Tomasky traces the uneasy relationship between the left and the Democrats, the early institutionalization of identity politics in the McGovern campaign, the dead-end pursuit of welfare rights in the halls of academia, the confused and ultimately failed campaign for national health care and the ill-conceived politicking over immigration - all of which come to life with insight, freshness and candor in the pages of this book.".
- catalog extent "vii, 226 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Left for dead.".
- catalog identifier "0684827506".
- catalog isFormatOf "Left for dead.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
- catalog relation "Left for dead.".
- catalog spatial "United States Economic policy 1993-2001.".
- catalog spatial "United States Politics and government 1993-2001.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social policy 1993-".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "973.929 20".
- catalog subject "Conservatism United States.".
- catalog subject "JK271 .T66 1996".
- catalog subject "Liberalism United States.".
- catalog subject "Progressivism (United States politics)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Bleached Bones and Jumbled Residues -- 1. A Handful of Smoke: What Is the Left? -- 2. Marriage of Inconvenience: The Left and the Democrats -- 3. E Unum Pluribus: The Politics of Identity -- 4. Questions, But Never Answers: Welfare -- 5. Doing the Right's Work: Immigration -- 6. Faith in Something Better: Affirmative Action -- 7. Armies Unconsidered: Health Care -- 8. The Long Road Back.".
- catalog title "Left for dead : the life, death, and possible resurrection of progressive politics in America / Michael Tomasky.".
- catalog title "Left for dead".
- catalog type "text".