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...evening to celebrate the release of the book Protest Nation: Words that Inspired a Century of American Radicalism. Guests included undergraduates, alumni, graduate students, and faculty—mostly friends and acquaintances of authors Timothy P. McCarthy, Quincy House tutor and Lecturer on History and Literature, and John C. McMillian, Quincy House tutor...
Protest Nation, released earlier this week, is a collection of speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos from all activists who shaped the backbone of America's radical movements and tradition of activism. In the vein of McCarthy and McMillian's previous book, The Radical Reader, the new book focuses on activist movements that challenged the country and changed history...
Protest Nation, along with McCarthy and McMillian's other books, can be purchased at most national bookstore chains, online, or locally at The Harvard Bookstore...
...It’s] evident to everyone that [The Beatles] entered their most fertile creative period after they began smoking grass and taking LSD,” wrote Extension School instructor John McMillian in an email; he is currently working on a book about the legendary band. “Same for Bob Dylan. And I can think of several major writers, like Edgar Allen Poe, Aldous Huxley and Jack Kerouac, whose use of narcotics, hallucinogens and stimulants apparently enhanced their work. But certainly there was a destructive side to this as well. Diminishing returns set in pretty quickly...
...arts article "High Art" took a quote about drug use in art from Extension School instructor John McMillian out of context. In addition to saying that many artistic greats used drugs during their most creative periods, McMillan said that he does not advocate drug use and that some of the artists suffered mightily from the negative side effects of drugs...