Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again

Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again

The eighteen essays and speeches in Take Hold of Our History render a manifesto â€“ a call to remember, redeem, and embrace the American radical story and tradition in favor of cultivating American historical memory and imagination and making America radical once again. For too long we have allowed the right to hijack the past and suppress, efface, lie about, and/or appropriate the essentially radical story of America from the struggles of the Revolution to those of the Age of Roosevelt and the 1960s. And no less tragically, we on the left, apparently haunted by the worst of our national experience, have turned our back on our own story and deferred to the tales of conservatives and reactionaries. Fleeing from the past, we merely compound the tragedies and ironies of American history, for we turn our backs on both the nationâ€™s democratic creed and radical imperative, but also the struggles from the bottom up, the struggles in which working people and others have laid hold of Americaâ€™s revolutionary promise and succeeded in making the United States freer, more equal and more democratic, at times, radically so. As Bill Moyers put it in 2008: â€œHere in the first decade of the twenty-first century the story that becomes Americaâ€™s dominant narrative will shape our collective imagination and our politics for a long time.â€ The time has come for us to advance that narrative.
Country USA
Brand Zero Books
Manufacturer Zero Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781789043556
ReleaseDate 2019-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781789043556

Country	USA
Brand	Zero Books
Manufacturer	Zero Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781789043556
ReleaseDate	2019-10-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781789043556

Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again

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