History and the New Left
Madison, Wisconsin, 1950-1970
Paul Buhle (Author)
9780877228363
Paperback / softback, published 27 February 1991
277 pages
2.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.441 kg
"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."
-David Thelen, Journal of American History
"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."
-Paul Berman, New York Institute for the Humanities
Essays trace the rise of an intellectual New Left from 1950 to 1970
