Christopher Phelps (born 1965) is an American political and intellectual historian of the twentieth century. The subjects of his research and writing include philosophical pragmatism,

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in social thought, the

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, and race and

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. He teaches in the department of American and Canadian Studies at the

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Books

Sole author

* ''Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist,'' Cornell University Press, 1997; 2d ed., University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Co-authored

* ''Radicals in America: The US Left Since the Second World War,'' Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Edited or introduced

* ''Marxism and America: New Appraisals'', University of Manchester, 2021. * ''

The Jungle ''The Jungle'' is a novel by American author and muckraking-journalist Upton Sinclair, known for his efforts to expose corruption in government and business in the early 20th century. In 1904, Sinclair spent seven weeks gathering information ...

'', by

Upton Sinclair Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 California gubernatorial election, 1934 Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party ...

, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005. * ''Race and Revolution'', by Max Shachtman, Verso, 2003. *
Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx
', by Sidney Hook, Prometheus, 2002. * ''From Hegel to Marx'', by Sidney Hook, Columbia University Press, 1994.

Selected articles

"The Novel of American Authoritarianism," ''Science & Society'', 2020

"Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the Politics of American Labor Journalism in the 1920s and 1930s," ''Labor: Studies in Working-Class History'', 2018

"The Sexuality of Malcolm X," ''Journal of American Studies'', 2017

"The Closet in the Party: The Young Socialist Alliance, the Socialist Workers Party, and Homosexuality, 1962 – 1970," ''Labor: Studies in Working-Class History'', 2013

"Dream Sequences: Marching on Washington Fifty Years On," ''Dissent'' Online, 2013

"Herbert Hill and the Federal Bureau of Investigation," ''Labor History'', 2012

"Port Huron at Fifty: The New Left and Labor: An Interview with Kim Moody," ''Labor: Studies in Working-Class History'', 2012

"The Strike Imagined: The Atlantic and Interpretive Voyages of Robert Koehler's Painting ''The Strike''," ''Journal of American History'', 2011

"The New SDS," ''The Nation,'' 2007

"Solidarność in Łódź: An Interview with Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski," ''International Labor and Working-Class History'', 2008

"A Neglected Document on Socialism and Sex," ''Journal of the History of Sexuality,'' 2007

* ttp://www.monthlyreview.org/599phelp.htm "A Socialist Magazine in the American Century," ''Monthly Review'', 1999
"Bourne Yet Again"
on the legacy of

Randolph Bourne Randolph Silliman Bourne (; May 30, 1886 – December 22, 1918) was a progressive writer and intellectual born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and a graduate of Columbia University. He is considered to be a spokesman for the young radicals living d ...

, '' New Politics,'' 1998
"History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch," ''Journal of American History'', 1994

References

External links

Christopher Phelps data at School of American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham

Interview by Tim Barker in ''Dissent'', 2016

Interview by Scott McLemee of ''InsideHigherEd.com'', 2005
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