WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT RADICAL PLAY…
*WINNER OF THE 2024 LAWRENCE W. LEVINE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK IN AMERICAN CULTURAL HISTORY, PRESENTED BY THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS
*WINNER OF THE 2024 RAY AND PAT BROWNE AWARD FOR BEST SINGLE WORK IN POPULAR CULTURE AND AMERICAN CULTURE, PRESENTED BY THE POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION
“An excellent account of the toy industry’s interaction with the political movements of the 1960s and 1970s”
“A readable and riveting narrative of a formative era of the 1960s....Recommended.”
“Radical Play is an eye-opening history and a hopeful story for our own times.”
“Eminently readable.”
“Rob Goldberg tells terrific stories.... His critical and nuanced account of the toy world’s politics . . . [serves] as a model for how future researchers might engage with toys as primary sources.”