Max Elbaum
Encyclopedia
Max Elbaum is an American historian
, author, and social activist. He has written extensively about the New Left
, Civil Rights and anti-war
movements. Max's book Revolution In The Air was praised by Pultizer Prize-winning historian David Garrow as "an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship".
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
, author, and social activist. He has written extensively about the New Left
New Left
The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist...
, Civil Rights and anti-war
Peace movement
A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war , minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace...
movements. Max's book Revolution In The Air was praised by Pultizer Prize-winning historian David Garrow as "an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship".