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A History of Utah Radicalism : Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary.

McCormick, John S.

A History of Utah Radicalism : Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (489 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: "The Better Land of Socialism": Utah's Radical Roots-Mormons, Godbeites, Liberals, Knights of Labor, and Populists -- Chapter 2: "Everyone Is Invited to Come and Hear about the New Gospel": An Overview of Socialism in Utah -- Chapter 3: "The Destruction of Love Is the Very Genius of the Competitive System": The Rhetoric of Utah Socialism -- Chapter 4: A Future "Living in the Light of a Better Day": The Membership of Utah's Socialist Party -- Chapter 5: "The Gospel of Jesus and the Gospel of Marx": Christian Socialism in Utah -- Chapter 6: "Abolishing the Capitalist System through the Ballot": Respectable Reformers-Utah Socialistsin Power, 1900-1925 -- Chapter 7: "The House Was Full, and the Band Was Out, and a Lively Time Prevailed": Utah's Socialist Culture -- Chapter 8: "Socialists, with Their Tireless Activity, Distributed Thousands of Copies of Their Papers": Utah's Socialist Press -- Chapter 9: "The Socialist Department of the Morning Examiner-Conducted by the Socialist Party of Ogden" -- Chapter 10: "I Listened to Your Lecture and Have Been an Agitatorfor Socialism Ever Since": Socialist Speaking in the Public Sphere -- Chapter 11: "Chase Socialism and the Expression of Socialist Ideas from the Streets": The Right of Socialists to Speak and the Politics of Public Space -- Chapter 12: "Our Constant Effort Is to Keep Our People from Joining Such Organizations": The Mormon Church's Campaign against Socialism-Part I -- Chapter 13: The Mormon Church's Campaign against Socialism-Part II: The Defense of Capital and the Construction of a Capitalist Ideology -- Afterword: "It Was All Wrong. It All Had to Change. It All Had to Stop": Radicalism in Utah since 1920 -- Index.

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