Writings for a democratic society : the Tom Hayden reader.

Author
Hayden, Tom [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2008], ©2008.
Description
591 pages ; 22 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 1. On Writing
  • I. Building a New Left: Student Activism & Civil Rights in the Early 1960s
  • 2. A Letter to the New (Young) Left
  • 3. SNCC in Action: Dignity for the Enslaved and for Us All
  • 4. Excerpts from the Port Huron Statement
  • 5. Newark Rebellion
  • II. The Vietnam War, the Antiwar Movement, and the Chicago Eight
  • 6. The Other Side: Hanoi, 1965
  • 7. Vietnam: The Struggle for Peace
  • 8. North Vietnam Stands Defiant Under Storm of U.S. Bombs
  • 9. The Streets of Chicago: 1968
  • 10. Our Identity on Trial
  • 11. One Long Sadness: A Vietnam Memoir
  • III. Inside Views: Electoral Politics, Public Policy, and the California State Legislature
  • 12. From "Make the Future Ours": Tom Hayden for U.S. Senate
  • 13. Hi, L.A., I'm Peter, and I Haven't a Clue
  • 14. Not a Diversion: Domestic Violence is a Crime
  • 15. The Special Interests Still Rule
  • 16. California Cracks its Mortarboards
  • 17. Ex-Slave Laborers Deserve Far Better
  • 18. Label Genetically Altered Food
  • IV. Digging for Root Causes: Ending Gang Violence
  • 19. Be Equally Tough on Causes of Violence
  • 20. Gato and Alex - No Safe Place
  • 21. The Myth of the Superpredator
  • V. Personal Roots: Thoughts on Ireland
  • 22. The Famine of Feeling
  • 23. Drumcree 1998 Is Mississippi 1963
  • VI. Personal Life
  • 24. Jane
  • 25. Your Son Became a Defendant Instead of a Lawyer
  • 26. Eulogy for Patrick Lippert
  • VII. Protecting the Environment
  • 27. Rainforest Journal
  • 28. The Politics of Nature
  • 29. California Salmon on the Verge of Extinction
  • 30. Earth Day Sermon
  • VIII. Lessons Learned: Progressive Politics and Foreign Policy
  • 31. The Mission of UCLA's Hunger Strike
  • 32. "We Will Not Be Ashamed to Say We Are Czech"
  • 33. As a Father, I Cannot Stand It
  • 34. An Exiled Son of Santiago
  • 35. Things Come 'Round in Mideast
  • 36. A Top Cuban Leader Thinks Out Loud
  • IX. Reflections on the 1960s
  • 37. The Way We Were
  • 38. Conspiracy In the Streets
  • 39. Image and Reality: The Vietnam Years
  • 40. Missing Mills
  • 41. Enemy of the State: The Secret War against John Lennon
  • 42. Dick Flacks: Where Caterpillars Become Butterflies
  • 43. The Children
  • 44. You Gotta Love Her
  • 45. Fifty Years On the Road with Jack Kerouac
  • 46. Memory and Movements: Cheney, Zinn and Beyond
  • X. From Chicago to Seattle and Beyond: Writings on the Global Justice Movement
  • 47. In the Beginning Is the Dream: Thoughts on the Zapatista Insurgency
  • 48. Seattle: It Was Bigger than Chicago
  • 49. Cancun Files: WTO Opens to Tragedy and Protest
  • 50. Harvard in Miami
  • 51. Out of the Melting Pot
  • 52. Post-Marx From Mumbai
  • 53. A New Bolivian Diary
  • 54. Who Are You Calling an Immigrant?
  • XI. Writing Against the Iraq War
  • 55. It's Empire versus Democracy
  • 56. Billy Graham's Legacy: A Crusade in Iraq?
  • 57. Anti-War Movement Deserves Some Credit
  • 58. Iraq is Dying
  • 59. The New Counterinsurgency
  • 60. Our Gulag.
ISBN
  • 9780872864610 (pbk.)
  • 0872864618 (pbk.)
LCCN
2007044961
OCLC
180576345
Other standard number
  • 40015458994
RCP
C - S
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