Seven Social Movements That Changed America

A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America.

How do social movements arise, wield power, and bring about meaningful change? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these and other salient questions in this “visionary, cautionary, timely, and utterly necessary book” (Nicole Eustace), narrating how some of America’s most influential twentieth-century social movements transformed t...