The Next Uprising: America’s Radical Past and Its Uncertain Future

Everything you think you know about American stability is a myth. America has always insisted it’s different—exceptional, peaceful, immune to the political fires that consumed Europe and Latin America. But the truth is far more explosive. From the Gilded Age mills to the streets of Minneapolis in 2020, the United States has been a pressure cooker of inequality, corruption, brutality, and betrayal. And every generation has produced its own radicals in response. This book uncovers the America we weren’t taught: company towns run like dictatorships police forces acting as corporate militias immigrant workers beaten, lynched, and driven to revolt anarchist cells, labor wars, and bomb plots punk squats, anti-Klan street fights, and antifascist networks abolitionist militants and leaderless digital uprisings From the factories of 1900 to the livestreams of 2020, Radicalism in America tells the untold story of how ordinary people—workers, immigrants, punks, students, and activists—were pushed from desperation to defiance. Radicalism didn’t come from Europe. It came from us. If you want to understand why America keeps erupting—and why the next eruption may already be forming—this book is essential reading. View Less