he did a much better job than francis wright at the kind of intersectional and coalition work i'm interested in this book. also you'll find chance additional us and socialists on utopian communes, polyamorous vegans, and another thing i want to emphasize is that this growing culture of dissent was met in this moment by a really reactionary mainstream opposition that as people started to articulate a real resistance to the way things were, we say huge backlash and its in that conflict that i start, that a see them as drivers of history rather than just as responders. the second half of the book is all about the civil war and reconstruction which was obviously a real watershed moment in national history, but it also about how it transformed these activists that i'm writing about as well. for instance, people who had been really principled pacifists, for example, came to condone violence or even to participate in violence. there was a very, there was a major right of 50,000 people in boston where a deputy federal agent was killed, and the community in boston had previously before that moment ha