After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century.(Review) (book review)

After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century, by Norman Birnbaum.

Oxford University Press, 432 pages, $35.00.

Many of those on the notoriously parochial American left have only a superficial understanding of the history of social movements in other countries. For these people (and you know who you are), Norman Birnbaum's superb new book, After Progress, could be a godsend. Birnbaum presents the key events and players in left movements of the twentieth century in a way that helps us understand their importance. Readers get the ...

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