Julia L Mickenberg: 2 books
American Girls in Red Russia
Chasing the Soviet Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
If you were an independent, adventurous, liberated American woman in the 1920s or 1930s where might you have sought escape from the constraints and compromises of bourgeois living? Paris and the Left Bank quickly come to mind. But would you have ever thought of Russia and the wilds of Siberia? This...
Learning from the Left
Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that challenged the status quo. Learning from the Left provides the first historic overview of their work. Spanning...