The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921: Origins of the Modern American Student Movement

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The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921: Origins of the Modern American Student Movement

reviewed by Philip G. Altbach - 1982

Title: The Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 1905-1921: Origins of the Modern American Student Movement
Author(s): Max Horn
Publisher: John Wiley, New York
ISBN: 0891585842, Pages: 259, Year: 1979
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While American students have never overthrown the government as students have done in many Third World nations, they have from time to time been dramatically involved in politics. The student movements of the 1960s are perhaps the main example of political involvement but by no means the only one. This volume provides an important piece of the history of American student political activism. While it is not quite true that the Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS) constituted the sole origin of the American student movement, as Max Horn claims, it is certainly a very important part of the development of modern American student activism. There are, of course, earlier manifestations of student political activism that Max Horn neglects to mention, such as antislavery efforts and earlier political and social concerns. But ISS is the first lasting, avowedly ideological, political student organization and, as such, has an important place in the history... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 83 Number 4, 1982, p. 647-649
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 758, Date Accessed: 1/19/2021 10:25:22 PM

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