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Radical Americans; Past, Present and Future

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Bywaters, Thomas Fouser, Don WGBH Educational Foundation Humphrey, Hubert H Harrington, Michael Thomas, Norman Bell, Daniel Fouser, Donald Rovers, Richard Stone, I. F

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Episode Number: 6This episode deals with the roots of radicalism in this country in the 19th century and briefly traces its growth and influence. There are radicals on this episode: politicians who have fought the more extreme forms of radicalism, and historians all trying to put radicalism in some perspective. Appearing on the episode is Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who talks about the tradition of radicalism in the Minnesota area of the country, an area that spawned Populism and other movements. He speaks of the infiltration by Communists of the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota when he was mayor of Minneapolis and how, by hard work and rounding up the votes the Communists were gotten out. Also on the episode are Norman Thomas, a radical of a former time, presidential candidate on the Socialist party ticket, now the benign dean of radicalism in this country; Michael Harrington, author of The Other America, which spelled out the social problems of poverty in this country, a book that has been taken up as the bible of the young radicals of today; IF Stone, editor of the radical newsletter IF Stone's Weekly; Richard Rovers, political writer whose columns in The New Yorker are among the most incisive on the Washington scene; and Professor Daniel Bell, of Columbia University, a sociologist who is widely respected for his insights into radical movements in this country. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche) The growing wave of radical movements in the United States today both on...
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