The Socialist Party of America by Jack Ross

The Socialist Party of America by Jack Ross

At a time when the word “socialist” is but one of numerous political epithets that are generally divorced from the historical context of America’s political history, The Socialist Party of America presents a new, mature understanding of America’s most important minor political party of the twentieth century. From the party’s origins in the labor and populist movements at the end of the nineteenth century, to its heyday with the charismatic Eugene V. Debs, and to its persistence through the Depression and the Second World War under the steady leadership of “America’s conscience,” Norman Thomas, The Socialist Party of America guides readers through the party’s twilight, ultimate demise, and the successor groups that arose following its collapse. Based on archival research, Jack Ross’s study challenges the orthodoxies of both sides of the historiographical debate as well as assumptions about the Socialist Party in historical memory. Ross similarly covers the related emergence of neoconservatism and other facets of contemporary American politics and assesses some of the more sensational charges from the right about contemporary liberalism and the “radicalism” of Barack Obama.

Jack Ross attended Montgomery College and George Mason University before receiving his BA in labor history from the National Labor College in 2006. His work has appeared in Antiwar.com and Taki's Magazine, as well as The American Conservative, History News Network, and Washington Report for Middle East Affairs. He is the author of Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism (Potomac, 2011).

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ISBN 13	9781612344904
ISBN 10	1612344909
Title	The Socialist Party of America
Author	Jack Ross
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Potomac Books Inc
Year published	2015-04-23
Number of pages	880
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