Reviews for Strange pilgrimages

The average rating for Strange pilgrimages based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-11-22 00:00:00 Nate Biazy Tough read for a layman. Good tho for the run-up to the New Deal. The (largely) ineffective "independent progressives", who sympathized with, but couldn't embrace labor, were a driven bunch. These independent progressives couldn't let go of their views that all Americans were in one boat - instead of working people vrs. the overclass. That tension remains with today's activists. The more middle-class oriented activists coming from Nader organizations are today's "independent progressives". There isn't a real equivalent to the hard left activism of the working class labor organizations of the early 20th century... but today's labor unions and affiliated organizations are the inheritors of the class-based organizing that the books' subjects couldn't embrace. The lead-up to the New Deal is particularly interesting, as many of the independent progressives and labor activists ideas became US government policy. Will something similar happen today with Obama's election? Will we get an updated New Deal? I sure hope so - but we'll see. These are very different times.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-01-05 00:00:00 Daniel Gonzalez Ugh, I really wish I had not assigned this book. It’s about twice as long as it needs to be and extremely tedious to read. The final chapter, on JFK, is the best, although in the future I will just use Cuordileone’s JAH article to teach this subject. I have a feeling my students will have been cursing me as they slogged through this book...