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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1978. When compared with socialist and communist systems in other nations, the impact of radicalism on American society seems almost nonexistent. David DeLeon challenges this position, however, by presenting a historical and theoretical perspective for understanding the scope and significance of dissent in America. From Anne Hutchinson in colonial New England to the New Left of the 1960s, DeLeon underscores a tradition of radical protest that has endured in American historya tradition of native anarchism that is fundamentally different from the radicalism of Europe, the Soviet Union, or nations of the Third World. DeLeon shows that a profound resistance to authority lies at the very heart of the American value system. The first part of the book examines how Protestant belief, capitalism, and even the American landscape itself contributed to the unique character of American dissent. DeLeon then looks at the actions and ideologies of all major forms of American
Table of ContentsForeword
Part I. The Genesis of Revelation
Chapter 1. Conscience and Community
Chapter 2. Capitalism and Community
Chapter 3. Space and Community
Part II. Jeremiads
Chapter 4. Liberalism
Chapter 5. Right Libertarianism
Chapter 6. Left Libertarianism
Chapter 7. Statist Radicalism
Part III. Revival and Reformation, 1960-77
Chapter 8. Old Visions of the New World
Chapter 9. The Future of the Radical Past
Notes
General Reference Bibliography
Index
