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Letters to a Young Activist, a new book by Todd Gitlin ’63, is the work of a passionate and lifelong leftist...
...president of Students for a Democratic Society during the mid-1960s, Gitlin directly addresses today’s activists in Letters. In a time of war and highly visible worldwide demonstrations, his book powerfully links today’s protests to their ’60s-era antecedents...
...book is also the work of a college professor—Gitlin is now a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University. Part history, part political science, Letters to a Young Activist is not the firebrand radicalism one might expect from a leader of the ’60s student movement...
...Instead, Gitlin emerges as a reflective, weathered veteran activist. Recognizing his position as an architect of the New Left, he speaks to today’s activists as a loving but sometimes critical father. Like a palm reader, he tells his readers what qualities activists are likely to have, identifies what kinds of challenges they face, and divines what obstacles will likely be thrown in their path...
...antiwar movement have to be careful to avoid drifting even further outside the mainstream. "There are a lot of people who may say they are against the war but are in no mood to be politically demonstrative about it," says Columbia University sociology and journalism professor Todd Gitlin, a 1960s student-protest leader. "And so you can't simply argue that the U.S. poisons everything it touches. The left-wing sectarian style is an impediment to moving it to a larger public...