"But the left is not just missing Murrow and neglecting Stevenson’s legions (who had a more transformative effect on our politics than Stevenson himself). For the ‘50s was also the decade in which a quietly militant working class created the first and greatest mass prosperity in the history of humankind. Today, that prosperity is so threatened that it may just be time for the left to look back at the world of the 1950s, and the unions of in particular, with new appreciation."
Harold Meyerson in The American Prospect reexamines the 1950s due to George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck.
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