Editorial Reviews
Review
" Raising Reds neatly traces the world of Communist education and family in the US from the 1920s to the 40s. It is an illuminating outline of the conjunction of ideology and child-rearing in the hopeful years before the Second World War." -- Mark Greif, Times Literary Supplement
"...well researched and thorough. I recommend it for historians interested in the history of radicalism and the left in the United States... historians of the family and of ethnic history would also find it of considerable value." -- Mark McColloch, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
"A compassionate, coherent and cogent narrative of an idealistic cadre of radicals, once upon a time in America, who tried to transform society from the bottom up." -- Science & Society
" Raising Reds is a most impressive approach to exploring aspects of radical childraising from the 1920s into the 1950s, the heyday of the Communist Party in the United States" -- Ronald D. Cohen, Indiana University Northwest, History of Education Quarterly
"An informative history." -- Joan Wallach Scott, Lingua Franca
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"Vital new insights into how working-class immigrants built a pluralist radical culture. [ Raising Reds] humanizes Communist families by showing the multiple pulls of assimilation and preservation. A fine melding of social and political history." -- Van Gosse, author of Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left
"If no one is born a radical, how are they made? Paul Mishler's concise and beautifully crafted book answers this question and in the process offers a fresh perspective on the American Left. He gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'class struggle.'" -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
Raising Reds
Raising Reds,Paul Mishler,Columbia University Press,0231110456,Children,Children and politics,Communist Party of the United,History,History - General History,History: World,Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism,Political Process - Political Parties,Political Science,Popular Culture - General,Social conditions,Socialism and youth,Sociology - General,United States,United States - 20th Century,Young Pioneers
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