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Scholarship on the sixties has shifted in recent years from a national focus to more local and regional studies, but few authors have studied the student movement in the Midwest. Lieberman brings a fresh interpretation to this subject, challenging the characterization of prairie power activists as long-haired, dope-smoking anarchists who were responsible for the downfall of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). She argues that Midwestern students made significant contributions to the New Left and that their efforts were important not only in the 1960s but also had a lasting impact on the universities and towns in which they were active. The oral histories come from national leaders of SDS, homegrown Midwestern activists who were local leaders on their campuses, and from grassroots activists who did not necessarily identify with either local or national organizations. Providing new insight into who participated in student protest and why, Prairie Power makes a significant contribution toward a more comprehensive history of the 1960s.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126895210769,"sku":"NLS9781617350566","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781617350566.jpg?v=1786441994"},{"product_id":"strangest-dream-book-robbie-lieberman-9781617350542","title":"The Strangest Dream","description":"The Strangest Dream Drawing on extensive archival material and oral history, Robbie Lieberman illustrates how grassroots peace activism in the United States became associated with Communist subversion after World War II. This association gave proponents of the Cold War a powerful weapon with which to try to silence the opposition. This weapon-anticommunism--was extremely effective until the early 1960s and its effects linger even today. The persecution of peace activists as subversives dates back to the colonial era, but the specific link between communism and peace developed out of the unique conditions of the Cold War-Communist agitation for peace, American notions of national security and freedom that rested on containing communism at all costs. Not until peace organizations challenged external and internal anti-Communist attacks were they able to achieve a new level of respectability. The end of the Cold War enabled scholars to take a fresh look at the peace movement in the early part of that era and how it was affected by fears about communism, whether imagined or real. With this book, Lieberman seeks to clarify American attitudes about peace and the fate of the peace movement in ways that previous studies have overlooked or avoided.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52126957043985,"sku":"NLS9781617350542","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52752117760273,"sku":"NIN9781617350542","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781617350542.jpg?v=1757481463"},{"product_id":"my-song-is-my-weapon-book-robbie-lieberman-9780252065255","title":"My Song Is My Weapon","description":"A revealing exploration of the origins and development of People's Songs, Inc., \u003ci\u003e\"My Song Is My Weapon\u003c\/i\u003e won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Robbie Lieberman brings to life the hootenannies, concerts, and rallies of the time, paying special attention to the politics of culture of the Old Left. Her analysis of the communist movement culture, coupled with interviews with former members of People's Songs, sheds new light on Cold War America, the American Communist movement, and the experience of left-wing cultural workers.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53557863874833,"sku":"CIN0252065255G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780252065255.jpg?v=1785793230"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-robbie-lieberman.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}