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...Paul Booth is a most unlikely-looking revolutionary. The press has described him as "clean-cut with a shock of curly, sandy hair and blue eyes," and to me he appeared the quintessence of innocence. In the six hours I spent with him during his Harvard visit, four different people walked into the room, looked him straight in the eye, and asked "Where is Booth...
...boyishness soon dissolved. "I want to build a new Left in the United States," Booth affirmed, and as National Secretary of SDS he could do just that. "What is Left?" Booth asked himself. "A left is a group of people who understand that problems are communal and can be solved collectively," he responded with conviction. Mixing serious debate with a light touch, Booth can outline his goals in very sober, Swarthmorian terms and then sum it all up by saying, "I guess you might call it the art of Reading, Writing, and Left-Building...
Weaned in a politically-minded family, his parents both active in ADA and his father working in the Labor Department, Booth made his "first political mistake" in 1952 when he distributed leaflets for Harriman in the fight against Kefauver...
...very prosaic guy," Booth said, and in spite of his reputation as a radical there seemed a note of truth in his snicker. To prove his point, Booth reported that he attended Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D. C., then went to Swarthmore College where he majored in Political Science, worked in the student government, and wrote for The Phoenix, the college newspaper. But this was only a temporary phase, he assured...
...Haber, founder of SDS, discovered Booth in October 1961 and became his tutor. By June 1962, Booth had learned enough to be elected vice-president of SDS at the Port Huron conference. Booth's campus life wasn't all politics: he joined the Civil Rights movement, went to a variety of political meetings, and read the New York Times faithfully, but as he explains, "there was still enough time to run with the hippy crowd." The pressure of student politics left him little opportunity to study, and in his own words he graduated "Magna Cum Difficultatis...