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OverviewThis study examines one organization from the radical left of the 1920s and 1930s: the American Fund for Public Service. Little known today, but infamous in its time, the American Fund represented a united front of anticapitalists—anarchists, socialists, communists, and left-liberals—which attempted to revitalize the left in order to end capitalism and, therefore, war. Financed by Charles Garland, an eccentric, 21-year-old Harvard dropout, the Fund performed the difficult task of allocating relatively meager resources among the most promising radical ventures, typically militant labor organizations. The philanthropy's directors represented a who's who of the labor left of the period: Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, Scott Nearing, James Weldon Johnson, and more. The fund anticipated philanthropies later in the century which meant to challenge the status quo beyond reformism. This study will be of interest to scholars of labor relations, radical politics, American history, and philanthropy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gloria G. SamsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Volume: No. 46. Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.573kg ISBN: 9780313298738ISBN 10: 0313298734 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 16 February 1996 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Introduction An Inheritance Rejected From Progressivism to Radicalism The ACLU and a New Social Order Free from the Bonds of Old Institutions Workers Will Lay Down Their Tools To Promote the Well-Being of Mankind Pacifists as Radicals It Takes Warm Hearts Chosen to Box the Left Compass A Sane Enough Radicalism Spend It Here and Now Scientific, Pragmatic, Efficient Emancipation of Their Class in Every Sphere Bolsheviks in Patriots' Clothing Tempers Flare The Rebel Girl Comes Aboard Surveying the Left Enemies on the Left Education and Culture Recipient Testimonials ""Negro Work"" Passaic Vanguard Press Friction Within and Without Little Left to Repress ""The Manifold Discriminations That Beset Him"" Shift to Low Gear We Did Quite a Lot of Good Bibliography Index"ReviewsSamson has produced a nicely done book on a long-ignored topic... Garland was a very American radical, a wealthy man who rejected his inheritance and turned it into the most daring of the early American foundations, although he himself was inconsistently invovled with the Fund's management. The Fund was always on the fringes of radical reform, its activities ranging from support of the NAACP and progressive labor unions to the very edges of communist social action. Samson covers the activities of the Fund and its managers very competently, and in so doing, sketches a segment of the left-liberalism of the 1920s and 1030s that has been too often ignored. Her research is thorough, and the book fills an important gap. -Choice ?Samson has produced a nicely done book on a long-ignored topic... Garland was a very American radical, a wealthy man who rejected his inheritance and turned it into the most daring of the early American foundations, although he himself was inconsistently invovled with the Fund's management. The Fund was always on the fringes of radical reform, its activities ranging from support of the NAACP and progressive labor unions to the very edges of communist social action. Samson covers the activities of the Fund and its managers very competently, and in so doing, sketches a segment of the left-liberalism of the 1920s and 1030s that has been too often ignored. Her research is thorough, and the book fills an important gap.?-Choice ?Samson has produced a nicely done book on a long-ignored topic... Garland was a very American radical, a wealthy man who rejected his inheritance and turned it into the most daring of the early American foundations, although he himself was inconsistently invovled with the Fund's management. The Fund was always on the fringes of radical reform, its activities ranging from support of the NAACP and progressive labor unions to the very edges of communist social action. Samson covers the activities of the Fund and its managers very competently, and in so doing, sketches a segment of the left-liberalism of the 1920s and 1030s that has been too often ignored. Her research is thorough, and the book fills an important gap.?-Choice Samson has produced a nicely done book on a long-ignored topic... Garland was a very American radical, a wealthy man who rejected his inheritance and turned it into the most daring of the early American foundations, although he himself was inconsistently invovled with the Fund's management. The Fund was always on the fringes of radical reform, its activities ranging from support of the NAACP and progressive labor unions to the very edges of communist social action. Samson covers the activities of the Fund and its managers very competently, and in so doing, sketches a segment of the left-liberalism of the 1920s and 1030s that has been too often ignored. Her research is thorough, and the book fills an important gap. -Choice ?Samson has produced a nicely done book on a long-ignored topic... Garland was a very American radical, a wealthy man who rejected his inheritance and turned it into the most daring of the early American foundations, although he himself was inconsistently invovled with the Fund's management. The Fund was always on the fringes of radical reform, its activities ranging from support of the NAACP and progressive labor unions to the very edges of communist social action. Samson covers the activities of the Fund and its managers very competently, and in so doing, sketches a segment of the left-liberalism of the 1920s and 1030s that has been too often ignored. Her research is thorough, and the book fills an important gap.?-Choice Author InformationGLORIA GARRETT SAMSON has taught at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University's Rochester extensions and other institutions. 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