E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics
288 pp, $23 pbk ISBN 9781583674437
By E.P. Thompson, Edited by Cal Winslow
Reviewed by Joseph White
“E.P. Thompson (1924–1993) wore several hats during his life. His magnum opus as a historian was The Making of the English Working Class, one of the greatest history books written in the twentieth century in any language. He fought tirelessly for nuclear disarmament in the 1980s, which almost surely took years off his life. He may well be least remembered for being a founder of the British New Left. For this reason, Cal Winslow’s selection of Thompson’s writings from the late 1950s to the early 1960s is especially welcome and timely—though not surprising, since Winslow was a student of Thompson’s at the University of Warwick and is a longtime activist and writer….”
Read the review in New Politics
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