Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics

What today's political thinkers can learn from the radical democratic movements of twentieth-century America

This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more democratic society has haunted the United States throughout its history. Should citizens restrict thems...