The American Left: Failures and Fortunes

New York, NY, U.S.A: Praeger Publishers, 1983. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The author, a political scientist and former antiwar activist, examines the past and present of the American left to attempt to determine the role it will pay in shaping the nation's future; in Part I he identifies the main currents of left thinking and argues that the American left's repeated fragmentation and isolation is largely responsible for its own failures to gain mass support; in Parts II & III he traces the political changes undergone by the left in the previous two decades and considers the possibility that radical democracy could serve as a perspective to unify and identify the left as a force in American politics in the future; with a forward by Derek Shearer (white cover with red lettering, minor shelf and edgweear, cover slightly curled, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy)