Howard Brick is the Louis Evans Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism (1986), Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (1998) and Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought (2006). Christopher Phelps is associate professor of American history at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist (1997) and articles in the Journal of American History, The Nation, The Financial Times and other periodicals. He has received several awards for his historical and political writing.

• Introduction: margin and mainstream; 1. War and peace, 1939–1948; 2. All over this land, 1949–1959; 3. A new left, 1960–1964; 4. The revolution will be live, 1965–1973; 5. Anticipation, 1973–1980; 6. Over the rainbow, 1980–1989; 7. What democracy looks like, 1990 to the present; Conclusion: radicalism's future.

'The true history of radicalism over the past fifty years is often lost and never found, or distorted, smeared, or colored by old sectarian feuds. Brick and Phelps have connected the past to the present in ways that are accessible, understandable, and without grudge or judgment. An excellent work.' Tom Hayden, author and politician

Howard Brick is the Louis Evans Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism (1986), Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (1998) and Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought (2006). Christopher Phelps is associate professor of American history at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist (1997) and articles in the Journal of American History, The Nation, The Financial Times and other periodicals. He has received several awards for his historical and political writing.

• Introduction: margin and mainstream; 1. War and peace, 1939–1948; 2. All over this land, 1949–1959; 3. A new left, 1960–1964; 4. The revolution will be live, 1965–1973; 5. Anticipation, 1973–1980; 6. Over the rainbow, 1980–1989; 7. What democracy looks like, 1990 to the present; Conclusion: radicalism's future.

'The true history of radicalism over the past fifty years is often lost and never found, or distorted, smeared, or colored by old sectarian feuds. Brick and Phelps have connected the past to the present in ways that are accessible, understandable, and without grudge or judgment. An excellent work.' Tom Hayden, author and politician

Howard Brick is the Louis Evans Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Daniel Bell and the Decline of Intellectual Radicalism (1986), Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s (1998) and Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought (2006). Christopher Phelps is associate professor of American history at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist (1997) and articles in the Journal of American History, The Nation, The Financial Times and other periodicals. He has received several awards for his historical and political writing.

• Introduction: margin and mainstream; 1. War and peace, 1939–1948; 2. All over this land, 1949–1959; 3. A new left, 1960–1964; 4. The revolution will be live, 1965–1973; 5. Anticipation, 1973–1980; 6. Over the rainbow, 1980–1989; 7. What democracy looks like, 1990 to the present; Conclusion: radicalism's future.

'The true history of radicalism over the past fifty years is often lost and never found, or distorted, smeared, or colored by old sectarian feuds. Brick and Phelps have connected the past to the present in ways that are accessible, understandable, and without grudge or judgment. An excellent work.' Tom Hayden, author and politician