| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States. By Julia L. Mickenberg. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xiv, 389 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-515281-6.)

In the fashion of Michael Denning's The Cultural Front (1996), Julia L. Mickenberg's Learning from the Left offers a cultural examination of the American Left. In her intriguingly suggestive study, the author points to children's literature, which provided a safe spot where leftists could carve out niches, acquire a certain fame, and even offer radical messages. Mickenberg begins with the observation that "children often emerged as the object of leftists' utopian vision," and she indicates that children's literature provided a bridge between two generations of American radicals (p. 4).

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