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Robert C. Cottrell has written over twenty books, including biographies of ACLU icon Roger Nash Baldwin and Negro League founder Rube Foster. He is the author most recently of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Rise of America’s 1960s Counterculture. Cottrell, professor of history and American studies at California State University, Chico, has also taught in London; Puebla, Mexico; and Moscow, Russia, in the latter instance as a Distinguished Fulbright Chair. He is presently completing a new book, The American Left: From the Wobblies to Black Lives Matter.

Contents

Introduction

1          Izzy, the Icon             

2          Early Progress and Greater Philadelphia                   

3          On the Record

4          A New Deal and the Popular Front at the Post           

5          The American Left, Interventionism, and Civil Liberties

6          Fighting the Good War                                  

7          Going Underground  

8          The Demise of the Old Left

9          The Panic Was On

10        A “Little Flea-Bite Publication”

11        “We Have to Learn to Think in a New Way”

12        Knockin’ on Jim Crow’s Doors

13        “The Steve Canyon Comic Strip Mentality”

14        Telling Truth to Power: The Emperor Has No Clothes

15        From Pariah to Character to National Institution

16        An Old Firehorse in Semiretirement

17        A Return to the Classics

18        The Rock of Stone

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index