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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 William Lloyd Garrison at Two Hundred: His Radicalism and His Legacy for Our Time -- 2 ''And There Shall Be No More Sea'': William Lloyd Garrison and the Transatlantic Abolitionist Movement -- 3 William Lloyd Garrison and Emancipatory Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America -- 4 Putting Politics Back In: Rethinking the Problem of Political Abolitionism -- 5 God, Garrison, and the Coming of the Civil War -- 6 Garrison at Two Hundred: The Family, the Legacy, and the Question of Garrison's Relevance in Contemporary America -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

A. Philip Randolph's career as a trade unionist and civil rights activist fundamentally shaped the course of black protest in the mid-twentieth century. Standing alongside W. E. B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, and others at the center of the cultural renaissance and political radicalism that shaped communities such as Harlem in the 1920s and into the 1930s, Randolph fashioned an understanding of social justice that reflected a deep awareness of how race complicated class concerns, especially among black laborers. Examining Randolph's work in lobbying for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, threatening to lead a march on Washington in 1941, and establishing the Fair Employment Practice Committee, Cornelius L. Bynum shows that Randolph's push for African American equality took place within a broader progressive program of industrial reform. Bynum interweaves biographical information with details on how Randolph gradually shifted his thinking about race and class.

Moncure Daniel Conway (1832–1907), the son of a Virginian plantation-owner, became a Unitarian minister, but his anti-slavery views made him controversial. He later became a freethinker, and following the outbreak of the Civil War, which deeply divided his own family, he left the United States for England in 1863. This two-volume biography of Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was published in 1892, and was followed by a four-volume edition of his works, which did much to inspire a reassessment of Paine's importance in the 'age of revolutions'. Conway clearly identified with Paine's radicalism as well as his activities on both sides of the Atlantic. Volume 1 covers his early life, his arrival in America in 1774 and involvement with the cause of American independence, and the subsequent war. In 1787 he returned to Europe, where he witnessed the fall of the Bastille, and published Rights of Man

front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Communist Can(n)on -- Questioning American Radicalism -- Stalinism: What's in a Name -- American Communism: Histories of Ambivalence and Accomplishment -- At the Point of Embattled Historiographic Production: The Meanings of Theodore Draper -- The Three Drapers -- Communist Biography and Stalinism: James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left -- 1. Rosedale Roots: Facts and Fictions -- An American Birth -- Fin de Siecle Context: Kansas in a World of Change -- In the Shadow of the Irish Diaspora: England and America -- The Industrial Frontier -- Family Fortunes -- A Boy's Life -- Meanings -- 2. Youth's Discoveries -- Mothers and Fathers and Adolescent Work -- Early Encounters with Socialism -- Education and the Discovery of Desire -- The Limitations of Rosedale Socialism -- 3. Hobo Rebel/Homeguard -- A Soapbox Apprenticeship -- Traveling Man: A Vincent St. John Seasoning -- Anarchy in Akron: Rubber Workers and the Mass Strike 1913 -- Fast-Train Hoboing and Hell Popping in Peoria -- A Solidarity of the Jail Cell: Marriage -- Duluth and the Testing of Class-War Leadership: Gunmen, Kidnappings, and Beatings -- The Home Front: Cannon Back in Kansas -- World War I and Revolutionary Doubt -- The Personal Is Political: Radical Manhood -- The IWW: The Great Anticipation -- 4. Red Dawn -- 1917: Revolution in the East -- Repression in the West -- Socialist Revival -- A Revived Class Struggle -- Browder and Cannon -- A Revolutionary Press -- A Fractious Left Wing -- Foreign-Language Federations and the Dialectic of Revolutionary Mobilization -- Cannon and the Communist Labor Party -- The Agitator's Return: Kansas Coal Fields, 1919 -- Caught in the Anti-Red Dragnet -- 5. Underground -- A Suit of Clothes.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. A WORKERS' MOVEMENT -- 1. National Reform: Agrarianism and the Origins of the American Workers' Movement -- 2. Working-Class Antimonopoly and Land Monopoly: Building a National Reform Association -- 3. A John-the-Baptist Work: The Agrarian Politicalization of American Socialism -- Illustrations follow page 46 -- PART 2. THE AGRARIAN PERSUASION -- 4. The Social Critique: Individual Liberty in a Class Society -- 5. Means and Ends: Pure Democracy, Self-Organization, and the Revolution -- 6. Race and Solidarity: The Test of Rhetoric and Ideology -- PART 3. THE IMPACT OF NATIONAL REFORM -- 7. Free Labor: The Coalition with the Abolitionists -- 8. Free Soil and Cheap Land: National Reform and the Struggle for Radical Agrarianism -- 9. The Republican Revolution: Victories beyond and by the Ballot -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Land Reform, Cooperationist, and Socialist Activities, 1844-52 -- Appendix B: The National Industrial Congresses -- Appendix C: New England Regional Associations -- Appendix D: National Reform Songs and Poems -- Notes -- Index.