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Overview
Writings for a Democratic Society is the only book that encapsulates Tom Hayden’s writings over fifty years, a time in which he has been a reflective eyewitness to American history in the making. The book is composed on sections about the new Left of the 1960s, the Chicago 8, Vietnam, electoral politics, gang violence, Ireland, the environment, global justice and US foreign policy today.
"Tom Hayden changed America," the national correspondent of The Atlantic, Nicholas Lemann, has written. He created the "blueprint for the Great Society programs," according to presidential assistant Richard Goodwin. He was the "single greatest figure of the 1960s student movement," according to The New York Times Book Review. Forty years later he was described as "the conscience of the Senate."
"His journey is our journey through the tumultuous and disillusioning decades. He is our Everyman, he is us."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"One comes away enthralled by Hayden’s odyssey."—The Boston Sunday Globe
Tom Hayden is the author or editor of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including Reunion and Street Wars.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780872864610 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | City Lights Books |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2008 |
| Pages: | 450 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d) |
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Table of Contents
On Writing 9
Building a New Left: Student Activism & Civil Rights in the Early 1960s
A Letter to the New (Young) Left 19
SNCC in Action: Dignity for the Enslaved and for Us All 27
Excerpts from the Port Huron Statement 35
Newark Rebellion 65
The Vietnam War, the Antiwar Movement, and the Chicago Eight
The Other Side: Hanoi, 1965 89
Vietnam: The Struggle for Peace 114
North Vietnam Stands Defiant Under Storm of U.S. Bombs 117
The Streets of Chicago: 1968 123
Our Identity on Trial 156
One Long Sadness: A Vietnam Memoir 168
Inside Views: Electoral Politics, Public Policy, and the California State Legislature
From "Make the Future Ours": Tom Hayden for U.S. Senate 177
Hi, L.A., I'm Peter, and I Haven't a Clue 188
Not a Diversion: Domestic Violence is a Crime 191
The Special Interests Still Rule 197
California Cracks its Mortarboards 200
Ex-Slave Laborers Deserve Far Better 207
Label Genetically Altered Food 210
Digging for Root Causes: Ending Gang Violence
Be Equally Tough on Causes of Violence 215
Gato and Alex-No Safe Place 219
The Myth of theSuperpredator 229
Personal Roots: Thoughts on Ireland
The Famine of Feeling 235
Drumcree 1998 Is Mississippi 1963 260
Personal Life
Jane 265
Your Son Became a Defendant Instead of a Lawyer 281
Eulogy for Patrick Lippert 283
Protecting the Environment
Rainforest Journal 289
The Politics of Nature 308
California Salmon on the Verge of Extinction 315
Earth Day Sermon 320
Lessons Learned: Progressive Politics and Foreign Policy
The Mission of UCLA's Hunger Strike 331
"We Will Not Be Ashamed to Say We Are Czech" 334
As a Father, I Cannot Stand It 338
An Exiled Son of Santiago 341
Things Come 'Round in Mideast 355
A Top Cuban Leader Thinks Out Loud 362
Reflections on the 1960s
The Way We Were 373
Conspiracy In the Streets 403
Image and Reality: The Vietnam Years 413
Missing Mills 417
Enemy of the State: The Secret War against John Lennon 425
Dick Flacks: Where Caterpillars Become Butterflies 431
The Children 435
You Gotta Love Her 444
Fifty Years On the Road with Jack Kerouac 449
Memory and Movements: Cheney, Zinn and Beyond 455
From Chicago to Seattle and Beyond: Writings on the Global Justice Movement
In the Beginning Is the Dream: Thoughts on the Zapatista Insurgency 465
Seattle: It Was Bigger than Chicago 486
Cancun Files: WTO Opens to Tragedy and Protest 489
Harvard in Miami 494
Out of the Melting Pot 498
Post-Marx From Mumbai 501
A New Bolivian Diary 511
Who Are You Calling an Immigrant? 519
Writing Against the Iraq War
It's Empire versus Democracy 527
Billy Graham's Legacy: A Crusade in Iraq? 538
Anti-War Movement Deserves Some Credit 548
Iraq is Dying 552
The New Counterinsurgency 557
Our Gulag 566
Permissions 568
Index 571
About the Author 592
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