The American Left

How left-wing politics has shaped life in the USA, from the 1900s to the present day Winner of the American Politics Group’s 2013 Neustadt Book Prize Only the American right has ever really recognised the potency of the American left. Now, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones fully details the left’s numerous achievements, including the welfare state, opposing militarism, reshaping of American culture, black rights and civil liberties, awakening the USA to the dangers of fascism and great public enterprises su