[D66] Trotskyism in the United States: Historical Essays and Reconsiderations

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9781608466856

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    TROTSKYISM IN THE UNITED STATES


    Historical Essays and Reconsiderations

By *George Breitman*, *Paul Le Blanc*, and *Alan Wald*
Haymarket Books <http://www.haymarketbooks.org> (Fall 2016)
Paper • ISBN-13: 9781608466856 • 352 pages


      ABOUT THE BOOK:

An outstanding set of informative essays, providing an unsurpassed
account of the dynamic revolutionary socialist current in the United
States known as “American Trotskyism.” In a preface written especially
for the new edition of this distinctive work, one of its authors, Paul
Le Blanc, offers fresh reflections and suggests additional sources for
scholars and activists in the 21st century.


      PRAISE FOR THE AUTHORS:

*Praise for /Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience /(Paul LeBlanc): *

“Looking back at the tumultuous events associated with revolutionary
Marxism in the past century, Paul Le Blanc offers us an insightful,
sympathetic, and even-handed assessment of the sources of its dynamism
as well as the causes of its decline.”
—Walden Bello

*Praise for /Exiles from a Future Time/ (Alan Wald):*

“A solid contribution to American studies, this will be welcomed by
literary scholars, historians, and political scientists for its thorough
research and wide ranging scholarship.”
//—Library Journal//


      ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

*Alan M. Wald* is the H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor of English
Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan and is the
recipient of the Mary C. Turpie Prize of the American Studies
Association. Among Alan Wald’s widely acclaimed writings is /The New
York Intellectuals/ (1987).

*Paul Le Blanc* is a professor of History at La Roche College, has
written on and participated in the U.S. labor, radical and civil rights
movements, and is author of such books as /Marx, Lenin and the
Revolutionary Experience/, and /Lenin and the Revolutionary Party/.

*George Breitman* (1916-86) was an American communist political activist
and newspaper editor. He is best remembered as a founding member of the
Socialist Workers Party and as a long-time editor of that organization’s
weekly paper, /The Militant/. He also edited internationally influential
volumes of works by Malcolm X and Leon Trotsky.

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