Seven Social Movements That Changed America

by Linda Gordon

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 the nation.

Beginning with the turn-of-the century settlement house movement, the book compares Chicago's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163149371X
• ISBN13: 9781631493713
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 528 Pages