Seven Social Movements That Changed America

by Linda Gordon

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 Ku Klux Klan and its successors, the violent American fascist groups of the 1930s. Profiles of two Depression-era...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163149371X
• ISBN13: 9781631493713
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 512 Pages