Crucible of Freedom

Crucible of Freedom
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 464
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ISBN-10 : 9780739122396
ISBN-13 : 0739122398
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Crucible of Freedom by : Eric Leif Davin

Download or read book Crucible of Freedom written by Eric Leif Davin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working people created a new America in the 1930s and 1940s which was a fundamental departure from the feudalistic and hierarchical America which existed before. In the process, class politics re-defined the political agenda of America as—for the first and time in American history—the political universe polarized along class lines. The author explores the meaning of the new deal political mobilization by ordinary people by examining the changes it brought to the local, county, and state levels in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Pennsylvania as a whole.


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