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This Is What Democracy Looks Like
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This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Essays on American Politics
PaperbackPaperback
EUR11,50

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Eric Leif Davin discusses a wide range of political issues and procedures. These include fascism, populism, sedition, elections, efforts to suppress electoral participation over the years, the deficit, balancing the budget, political demographics, the fourth branch of government, and how to create a powerful political movement.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-387-65433-8
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
PublisherLulu.com
Publishing date27/08/2022
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 148 mm, Height 210 mm, Thickness 3 mm
Weight77 g
Article no.23623834
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A44912700
Product groupBU730
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Eric Leif Davin, Ph.D., is the author of The Great Strike of 1877; Crucible of Freedom: Workers' Democracy in the Industrial Heartland, 1914-1960; Radicals in Power: The New Left Experience in Office; A Forlorn Hope: Third Parties and American Political Ideology, and, with Staughton Lynd, Picket Line and Ballot Box: The Forgotten Legacy of the Labor Party Movement, 1932-1936. He is also the author of The Paterson Strike Pageant: An IWW Novel of Bohemia and Insurgent Labor; Solidarity: An IWW Novel of the Steel City, and The Year of Hope and Fear: Insurrection and Repression, 1919.His essay, "The Very Last Hurrah: The Defeat of the Labor Party Idea, 1934-1936," appeared in "We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s," (University of Illinois Press, 1996), edited by Staughton Lynd. It won the Eugene V. Debs Foundation's prize as the best essay of that year reflecting the enduring spirit of Eugene V. Debs.