Books by Kevin Mattson

Beginning with an analysis of the work of early activists and the social centres movement in the USA, the author shows how democratic participation grew into a national phenomenon and cites its achievements and ideals. He explores how public involvement in politics might be fostered today.

Offers an intellectual history that aims to make us rethink postwar politics and culture. This title profiles the thinkers and writers who crafted a new American liberal tradition in a conservative era - from historians Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, and C Vann Woodward, to economist John Kenneth Galbraith and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.