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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Essays trace the rise of an intellectual New Left from 1950 to 1970<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877226536&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="574_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>History and the New Left</h1>
<H2>Madison, Wisconsin, 1950-1970</H2>
<h3>edited by Paul Buhle</h3>
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<BR> 457 pp
</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Buhle has assembled a rich collection of people to reflect on how that community's traditions and meeting grounds in the 1950s and 1960s interacted to shape their own creative contribution."</I>
<br>—<b>David Thelen</b>, <I>Journal of American History</I><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p>Madison, Wisconsin has long been known as a dynamic cultural center and focus of political-intellectual ferment in the middle of America. This collection of essays and interviews traces the rise of an intellectual New Left from 1950 to 1970 as experienced by activists and scholars with ties to the University of Wisconsin. Its thirty-two contributors, including prominent historians, journalist-scholars, and veteran political activists, re-examine their own personal histories in different eras and draw fresh, often surprising conclusions. The city and campus of Madison provide a veritable laboratory for the study of deep continuities in American dissenting thought. Photographs and cultural documents accompany these poignant, candid oral histories.
<p>The volume explores a crucial period of Madison�s intellectual life as a crossroad of history and culture. Interviews with the scholars and former students who politicized historical analysis in light of the Cold War, McCarthyism, nuclear and environmental holocaust, civil rights, and the Vietnam War, recall the debates and alliances that kept Madison in a state of ferment.
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><I>"Madison, Wisconsin, in the 1950s and 1960s was a rich soup of Wisconsin progressives, New York folksingers, socialists, and communists from all parts, actors, hyper-energetic graduate students, future film folk, culture critics—and above all, historians. The modern school of history-from-the-bottom-up came out of Madison. The place was probably the single most creative center of the American New Left. It was the place to be—as you'll see when you read the autobiographical reminiscences in this imaginative volume."</I>
<br>—<b>Paul Berman</b>, New York Institute for the Humanities
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Acknowledgments
<br>Madison: An Introduction – Paul Buhle
<p><b>Part I: Cold War Days</b>
<br>1. The Smoking Room School of History – Warren Susman
<br>2. Learning About History – Herbert G. Gutman
<br>3. WASP and Dissenter – William Preston
<br>4. I Dissent – George Rawick
<br>5. Parentheses: 1952-1956 – Jeffry Kaplow
<br>6. A Madison Bohemian – Nina Serrano
<br>7. A Journalist Among Historians – Richard Schickel
<p><b>Part II: From Old Left to New</b>
<br>8. From Liberal, to Social Democrat, to Marxist: My Political Itinerary Through Madison in the Late 1950s – Bertell Ollman
<br>9. From the Labor Youth League to the Cuban Revolution – Saul Landau
<br>10. Studies on the Left – James Weinstein
<br>11. The Intellectuals and the First New Left – James B. Gilbert
<br>12. New York Meets Oshkosh – Lee Baxandall
<br>13. Another Madison Bohemian – Roz Baxandall
<br>14. Civil Rights and History – Harriet Tanzman
<br>15. A Way of Seeing – Elizabeth Ewen
<p><b>Part III: Conflict and Consciousness</b>
<br>16. In Exile – Evan Stark
<br>17. The Intellectual New Left – Stuart Ewen
<br>18. Memories from the Periphery – Malcolm Sylvers
<br>19. Radicalized History – Peter Wiley
<br>20. Madison and Women's History – Mari Jo Buhle
<br>21. A Madison Communist – Paul Richards
<br>22. Neighborhood Politics – Michael Meeropol and Gerald Markowitz
<br>23. <I>Radical America</I> and Me – Paul Buhle
<br>24. New Left Intellectuals/New Left Politics – George Mosse
<p><b>Part IV: Our Teachers</b>
<br>25. Harvey Goldberg – Ron McCrea and Dave Wagner
<br>26. The Mosse Milieu – Paul Breines
<br>27. The Tragedy of Hans Gerth – Eleanor Hakim
<br>28. My Life in Madison – William A. Williams
<p>Appendix A: The Historian�s Task – Warren Susman
<br>Appendix B: The Boy Scouts in Cuba – Lee Baxandall, Marshall Brickman, Danny Kalb
<br>Name Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Paul Buhle</b> is Director of the Oral History of the American Left Project at the Tamiment Library of New York University and teachers U.S. History at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is co-editor with Paul Buhle of <I><A HREF="1642_reg.html" TARGET="_top">The New Left Revisited</A></I> (Temple).</P>
<P>Contributors: Lee Baxandall, Roz Baxandall, Paul Breines, Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Elizabeth Ewen, Stuart Ewen, James Gilbert, Herbert G. Gutman, Eleanor Hakim, Jeffry Kaplow, Saul Landau, Gerald Markowitz, Ron McCrae, Michael Meeropol, George Mosse, Bertell Ollman, William Preston, George Rawick, Paul Richards, Nina Serrano, Richard Schickel, Evan Stark, Warren Susman, Malcolm Sylvers, Harriet Tanzman, Dave Wagner, James Weinstein, Peter Wiley, and William A. Williams.</P>
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