This book is about people whose beliefs and affiliations have opposed powerful interests in the present-day United States. This eclectic group of people and controversial issues, from climate-change scientists who have been censored by the Bush administration to Muslims accused of terrorism, have one thing in common. All of them straddle the limits of what Noam Chomsky has called permissible debate as defined by dominant political and economic institutions and individuals. The central thesis is that restriction of free inquiry is harmful to our culture because it inhibits the search for...
This book is about people whose beliefs and affiliations have opposed powerful interests in the present-day United States. This eclectic group of p...
Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to make real the promise of democracy for all Americans, railed against abuses of corporate power, renounced American empire, championed environmental causes, opposed war, and waged peace. It chronicles voices of the women s rights movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, and the gay rights movement. And on every page, it declares the importance of an independent media, by culling the best of The Progressive magazine over the...
Democracy in Print captures many of the most influential voices from a century of United States history who have spoken out on the struggle to ...
Written in lucid, vigorous prose, "La Follette""'s Autobiography" is the famous Wisconsin senator's own account of his political life and philosophy. Both memoir and a history of the Progressive cause in the United States, it charts La Follette's formative years in politics, his attempts to abolish entrenched, ruthless state and corporate influences, and his embattled efforts to advance Progressive policies as Wisconsin governor and U.S. senator. With a new foreword by Matthew Rothschild, editor of "The Progressive"--the magazine that La Follette himself founded--the "Autobiography" remains a...
Written in lucid, vigorous prose, "La Follette""'s Autobiography" is the famous Wisconsin senator's own account of his political life and philosophy. ...
