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ROBERT C. COTTRELL : PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE | Todd Gitlin, RIP
He was always fiercely independent and intelligent. By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | March 24, 2022 Listen to Thorne Dreyer’s two classic Rag Radio interviews with Todd Gitlin from July 19, 2013, and August 16, 2013. Listen … Continue reading
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BOOKS | ‘Making History Making Blintzes’
A memoir by New Left veterans Mickey Flacks and Dick Flacks. By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | January 20, 2022 As a historian who has concentrated extensively on American radicalism, I attempt to keep abreast of newly … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Dick Flacks, Making History Making Blintzes, Memoir, Mickey Flacks, New Left, Rag Bloggers, Robert C. Cottrell
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POLITICAL VIOLENCE | The politics of assassination: An initial thought
Throughout the early postwar era and emphatically during the 1960s, the politics of assassination came into play. By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | December 18, 2021 I’m writing this on the morning of December 4, 2021, the … Continue reading
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BOOKS | In response to Jonah Raskin
The author replies to Raskin’s ‘Rag Blog’ review of ‘All-American Rebels.’ By Robert C. Cottrell | The Rag Blog | August 26, 2020 [The following is a response to Jonah Raskin’s August 18, 2020 Rag Blog review of Bob Cottrell’s … Continue reading
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Tagged All-American Rebels, Books, Criticism, Jonah Raskin, Opinion, Rag Bloggers, Robert C. Cottrell
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