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Thaddeus Russell

Thaddeus Russell
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Thaddeus Russell

Thaddeus Russell teaches history and cultural studies at Occidental College and has taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, Eugene Lang College, and the New School for Social Research. Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Russell graduated from Antioch College and received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. Russell's first book, Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the Re-Making of the American Working Class, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2001. He has published opinion articles in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Salon, and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, as well as scholarly essays in American Quarterly and The... Read full bio

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A Renegade History of the United States will be released on July 05, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Jul 05, 2011
A Renegade History of the United States is now available in Trade Paperback
Jul 05, 2011
A Renegade History of the United States will be released on September 28, 2010 in eBook
Sep 28, 2010
A Renegade History of the United States is now available in eBook
Sep 28, 2010
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Waldo County Village Soup, March 24, 2013
...other histories around, especially those used as school texts, and explained a lot to me about our country. “Thaddeus Russell is a trouble-maker for sure. Whether you call his book courageous or outrageous, his helter-skelter tour through the...
AlterNet.org, December 28, 2012
...The following is an excerpt from Thaddeus Russell's book, " A Renegade History of the United States " (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2010). One of AlterNet's favorite books in recent years, we thought we'd...
REASON Online, June 8, 2012
...a series of celebrations and renewed calls for government programs to save the poor once more. Yet as Thaddeus Russell observes, what none of these celebrants has noted is The Other America ’s profound and even jarring conservatism. The book is...
American Conservative, January 16, 2013
...gun control, and how in the 20th century many gun regulations were aimed at disempowering black radicals. From Thaddeus Russell’s review in Reason : In 1967 Don Mulford, the Republican state assemblyman who represented the Panthers’ patrol zone...
Live-PR.com, January 15, 2013
...Valuable contributions are also made by critics of the Tea Party movement, such as Professors Christopher Park and Thaddeus Russell, who examine how racism and bigotry may have subtly infiltrated the minds of legislators and become an unwanted, but often...
Digital Media Net, January 15, 2013
...Valuable contributions are also made by critics of the Tea Party movement, such as Professors Christopher Park and Thaddeus Russell, who examine how racism and bigotry may have subtly infiltrated the minds of legislators and become an unwanted, but often...
Review Seeker, January 15, 2013
...Valuable contributions are also made by critics of the Tea Party movement, such as Professors Christopher Park and Thaddeus Russell, who examine how racism and bigotry may have subtly infiltrated the minds of legislators and become an unwanted, but often...
TMC Net, January 15, 2013
...Valuable contributions are also made by critics of the Tea Party movement, such as Professors Christopher Park and Thaddeus Russell, who examine how racism and bigotry may have subtly infiltrated the minds of legislators and become an unwanted, but often...
TMC Net, January 15, 2013
...Valuable contributions are also made by critics of the Tea Party movement, such as Professors Christopher Park and Thaddeus Russell, who examine how racism and bigotry may have subtly infiltrated the minds of legislators and become an unwanted, but often...
TMC Net, January 15, 2013
...Valuable contributions are also made by critics of the Tea Party movement, such as Professors Christopher Park and Thaddeus Russell, who examine how racism and bigotry may have subtly infiltrated the minds of legislators and become an unwanted, but often...