Democracy Is in the Streets From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, with a New Preface by the Author

Name: Democracy Is in the Streets From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, with a New Preface by the Author
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ISBN: 9780674197251

ISBN-10: 0674197259

ISBN-13: 9780674197251

Edition: 1994

Authors: James Miller

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On June 12, 1962, sixty young student activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in the Streets is the definitive history of the major people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during that turbulent decade. Because the 1960s generation is now moving into positions of power in politics, education, the media, and business, their early history is crucial to our understanding. James Miller, in his new Preface, puts the 1960s and them into a context for our time, claiming that something of value did happen: "Most of the large questions raised by that moment of chaotic openness--political questions about…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/20/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

James Miller, Professor of Political Science and Director of Liberal Studies at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, is the author of The Passion of Michel Foucault and Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy.



Preface: The 1960s in the 1990s


Introduction: Port Huron and the Lost History of the New Left



Rediscovering Politics



Out of Apathy On a Different Track