The Admirable Radical: Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword by Howard Zinn xi Introduction: If Not Now, When? Lynd’s Half-Century Journey for Social Change in the United States 1 1 Premature New Leftist, 1945–1960 15 2 Historical Protagonist/Professional Historian: Spelman, Columbia, and a Ph.D. 34 3 It Is a Blessed Community: Civil Rights and Mississippi Freedom Summer 49 4 Lynd Not Lyndon: The Anti–Vietnam War Movement Confronts the Establishment 74 5 Mission to Hanoi: Knocking on the Other Side’s Door 98 6 Blacklisted: Academe Confronts a Radical Historian 117 7 Guerrilla Historians Combat the American Historical Association 150 8 Still Carrying the Banner: Life after the Sixties 166 Notes 171 Bibliography 208 Index 219 ...