Books by Michael Kazin and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Kazin, Author . Knopf $30 (374p) ISBN 978-0-375-41135-9
Kazin (Barons of Labor
) attempts a revisionist portrait of Bryan (1860–1925), whom scholars have long dismissed as a rabid white supremacist, bullying fundamentalist and braying pacifist/isolationist. But Kazin errs in downplaying such...
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Michael Kazin, Author Basic Books $24 (381p) ISBN 978-0-465-03793-3
If populism now seems ``something of a fashion statement,'' Kazin (Barons of Labor) ably reveals its rich and textured history. Activists from varied backgrounds have sought to invoke and speak to the masses since the late-19th-century People's...
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Michael Kazin. Knopf, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-26628-6
Feminists, labor militants, civil rights stalwarts, and socialists have captured America’s heart—though rarely its votes—according to this perceptive history of the radical left. Kazin (The Populist Persuasion), editor of Dissent magazine, surveys...
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Maurice Isserman, Author, Michael Kazin, Author, Michael Kazin, Joint Author Oxford University Press, USA $55 (368p) ISBN 978-0-19-509190-8
Historians (and former 1960s radicals) Isserman (If I Had a Hammer) and Kazin (The Populist Persuasion) mount an intermittently convincing reinterpretation of the 1960s. They start off strong with the Civil War Centennial Commission's remarkable...
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Michael Kazin. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-20023-7
Georgetown University historian Kazin (War Against War) delivers a brisk and informative survey of the Democratic Party’s evolution from its origins in the 1820s to the present. A supporter of the party who canvassed for JFK at age 12, Kazin...
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