Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941 by Mayers, David
Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941 by Mayers, David

Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941

This book recounts the tales of individual Americans, some well-known and some not, who strove to understand...
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Author: David Mayers
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941 by Mayers, David

Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941

$42.00
Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941 by Mayers, David

Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935-1941

$42.00
Author: David Mayers
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
This book recounts the tales of individual Americans, some well-known and some not, who strove to understand their nation and its place in the world in the roiled years 1935-41. David Mayers identifies these individuals as 'seekers' and 'partisans.' Primarily disillusioned idealists, both on the left and right, they hurried from America to explore and be part of a different world. Among those featured are John Robinson, a Black aviator who in 1935 led the Ethiopian air force against the Italian invasion; Agnes Smedley, who joined the Chinese communists during the Sino-Japanese war; eminent Black civil rights theorist W. E. B. Du Bois; Helen Keller, an advocate of the seeing- and hearing-impaired; architect Philip Johnson; Ezra Pound, a lauded poet who championed Mussolini; and Anna Louise Strong, drawn to Stalin's USSR. The lives and stories of this diverse group shed light on the contested nature of American ambitions, aims, and national purpose, and destabilize what it means to be 'American.'

Author: David Mayers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/05/2026
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.35w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781009629874

About the Author
Mayers, David: - David Mayers teaches at Boston University, where he holds a joint professorship in the history and political science departments. His principal books are George Kennan and the Dilemmas of U.S. Foreign Policy; The Ambassadors and America's Soviet Policy; Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991; America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956; and with Cambridge University Press, Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power; and FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis.
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