LEADER 04127nam 2200865Ia 450 001 9910139362603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-45815-9 010 $a1-282-93625-5 010 $a9786612936258 010 $a9786612458156 010 $a1-4008-3504-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400835041 035 $a(CKB)2520000000006996 035 $a(EBL)483589 035 $a(OCoLC)587078436 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000457855 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11316897 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000457855 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10420860 035 $a(PQKB)10721727 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810763 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12370342 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810763 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10846462 035 $a(PQKB)24099991 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483589 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36775 035 $a(DE-B1597)453718 035 $a(OCoLC)979745513 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400835041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4968613 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL483589 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364732 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL293625 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4968613 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245815 035 $a(OCoLC)741250578 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000006996 100 $a20090722d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemanding democracy$b[electronic resource] $eAmerican radicals in search of a new politics /$fMarc Stears 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-15790-1 311 $a0-691-13340-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tPART ONE. 1900-1945 -- $tPART TWO. 1945-1972 -- $tCONCLUSION. Renewing the American Radical Tradition -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aThis is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more democratic society has haunted the United States throughout its history. Should citizens restrict themselves to patient persuasion or take to the streets and seek to impose change? Marc Stears argues that anyone who continues to wrestle with these questions could learn from the radical democratic tradition that was forged in the twentieth century by political activists, including progressives, trade unionists, civil rights campaigners, and members of the student New Left. These activists and their movements insisted that American campaigners for democratic change should be free to strike out in whatever ways they thought necessary, so long as their actions enhanced the political virtues of citizens and contributed to the eventual triumph of the democratic cause. Reevaluating the moral and strategic arguments, and the triumphs and excesses, of this radical democratic tradition, Stears contends that it still offers a compelling account of citizen behavior--one that is fairer, more inclusive, and more truly democratic than those advanced by political theorists today. 606 $aDemocracy$zUnited States 606 $aRadicalism$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical movements$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical activists$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aRadicalism 615 0$aPolitical movements 615 0$aPolitical activists 676 $a320.530973 700 $aStears$b Marc$0905194 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910139362603321 996 $aDemanding democracy$92490656 997 $aUNINA