Thursday, June 15, 2017

'Young Radicals' follows progressives' pursuit of ideals into World War I

'Young Radicals' follows progressives' pursuit of ideals into World War I: Book Review, Part 2: The most fascinating part of Jeremy McCarter's book comes when the U.S. enters the war, and the young radicals face a dangerous new world.

MGB: Debbs, though a bit older, spent the war in prison for resisting it.  That should be worth a chapter.  Most radicals owe their position to the shoulders they stood on.  Suffragette's stand on Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and fellow prohibitionist Margaret Esther Brown Allen - my great-grandmother.  Now that's a story.  Cooperativists, stand on Maggie's husband, Silas Locke Allen, who has as much to do with that movement as Leo XIII, if not more so.

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