The new left revisited

McMillian, John Campbell. (Added Author). Buhle, Paul, 1944- (Added Author).

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ISBN: 1566399769 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1566399750 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: vi, 274 p. ; 26 cm.
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Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, c2003.

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Introduction: "You Didn't Have to Be There": Revisiting the New Left Consensus / John McMillian -- Ch. 1. "It Seemed a Very Local Affair": The Student Movement at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale / Robbie Lieberman and David Cochran -- Ch. 2. Between Despair and Hope: Revisiting Studies on the Left / Kevin Mattson -- Ch. 3. Building the New South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee / Gregg L. Michel -- Ch. 4. Black Freedom Struggle and White Resistance: A Case Study of the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland / Peter B. Levy -- Ch. 5. Organizing from the Bottom Up: Lillian Craig, Dovie Thurman, and the Politics of ERAP / Jennifer Frost -- Ch. 6. Death City Radicals: The Counterculture in Los Angeles / David McBride -- Ch. 7. How New Was the New Left? / Andrew Hunt -- Ch. 8. Strategy and Democracy in the New Left / Francesca Polletta -- Ch. 9. "Point of Ultimate Indignity" or a "Beloved Community"? The Draft Resistance Movement and Gender Dynamics / Michael S. Foley -- Ch. 10. Losing Our Kids: Queer Perspectives on the Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial / Ian Lekus -- Ch. 11. Between Revolution 9 and Thesis II: Or, Will We Learn (Again) to Start Worrying and Change the World? / Jeremy Varon -- Ch. 12. Letting Go: Revisiting the New Left's Demise / Doug Rossinow -- Afterword: How Sweet It Wasn't: The Scholars and the CIA / Paul Buhle.