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Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America
September 13, 2006
Frances Fox Piven professor, sociology & political science, CUNY

Frances Fox Piven gives a talk based on her new book, Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America. After recounting the ills of a society biased toward the powerful, Piven highlights the thread of populist resistance in American history from the American Revolution through abolition to the civil rights era.

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Author: Frances Fox Piven
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 200 pages
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