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The Radical Fund

How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

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The Radical Fund

Von: John Fabian Witt
Gesprochen von: Kevin R. Free
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 From Pulitzer Prize finalist John Fabian Witt comes the captivating secret history of an epic experiment to remake American democracy. Before the dark money of the Koch Brothers, before the billions of the Ford Foundation, there was the Garland Fund.

In 1922, a young idealist named Charles Garland rejected a million-dollar inheritance. In a world of shocking wealth disparities, shameless racism, and political repression, Garland opted instead to invest in a future where radical ideas—like working-class power, free speech, and equality—might flourish. Over the next two decades, the Garland Fund would nurture a new generation of wildly ambi­tious progressive projects.

The men and women around the Fund were rich and poor, white and Black. They cooperated and bickered; they formed rivalries, fell in and out of love, and made mistakes. Yet shared beliefs linked them throughout. They believed that Amer­ican capitalism was broken. They believed that American democracy (if it had ever existed) stole from those who had the least. And they believed that American institutions needed to be radically remade for the modern age.

By the time they spent the last of the Fund’s resources, their outsider ideas had become mass movements battling to transform a nation.

A luminous testament to the power of visionary organizations and a meditation on the vexed role of money in American life, The Radical Fund is a hopeful book for our anxious, angry age—an empowering road map for how people with heretical ideas can bring about audacious change. Aktivisten Nord-, Mittel- & Südamerika Politik & Aktivismus Politik & Regierungen Ökonomie

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“A brilliant account of how one modestly endowed organization helped transform America.”
—Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello
“Engrossing.”
— The New York Times
“Fascinating… [Witt] shows that radical philanthropy can foster important and necessary changes in American life.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“A rare achievement by a gifted historian at the peak of his powers.”
—David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass
“There is a great mind at work in this book; Witt has meticulously uncovered and documented the lost history of one of the United States’ most efficient charitable funds…. Witt seems to be showing us… how badly we need efforts like this again....”
—Los Angeles Times
“Original and riveting. A remarkable reminder that people who adhere to diverse ideas about how to make this a better society can—indeed must—work together to bring about social change.”
—Eric Foner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Fiery Trial
“Written with elegance, wit, and penetrating historical insight, this richly textured story is as useful today as a century ago.”
—Nelson Lichtenstein, author of Labor’s Partisans
“Making stark the parallels he sees with the present... Witt excavates an invigorating counter-history of the American left defined by its scrappy collegiality. It’s an immense and essential achievement.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“This is a book to admire and read deliberately.... An important and meticulous look at the impact of a forgotten fund’s revolutionary work.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Enjoyable.”
—Booklist
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