The American Fund for Public Service: Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy,

Description: Product DescriptionThis 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 sta…condition info: Pages are unmarked. Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. Former library copy with stamps/stickers.

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EAN: 9780313298738

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Number of Pages: 288 Pages

Publication Name: American Fund for Public Service : Charles Garland and Radical Philanthropy, 1922-1941

Language: English

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Publication Year: 1996

Item Height: 0.7 in

Subject: Rich & Famous, Economic History, Sociology / General, Philanthropy & Charity, Social History, General

Item Weight: 20.2 Oz

Type: Textbook

Item Length: 9.2 in

Subject Area: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History

Author: Gloria G. Samson

Item Width: 6.1 in

Series: Contributions in Labor Studies

Format: Hardcover