Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Left written by Mari Jo Buhle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive reference book on radicalism in the United States from the Civil War to the present, this work fills serious gaps in basic reference materials on American politics, labor, and culture by focusing on radicals rather than reformers. Merging previously unutilized sourcessuch as oral history with the wealth of insight available from feminist, ethnic, racial studies and popular culture analysis as well as traditional scholarly approaches, their efforts retrieved a hitherto inaccesible history.