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 decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential twentieth-century social movements. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century settlement house movement, Gordon then scrutinizes the 1920s K...