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Democracy is in the Streets
Democracy is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago | Jim Miller, James Miller
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On June 12, 1962, sixty young 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 people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during the turbulent 1960s. From the ideal of "participatory democracy" to the reality of community organizing, from the most publicized radical leaders to less well known theorists and activists, James Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of "The Port Huron Statement" to heart--and to the streets.
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A straightforward overview of the New Left from the late Fifties through the early Seventies. Unlike some of Tom Hayden‘s, Todd Gitlin‘s, and other SDSers‘ retrospective work–valuable and compelling in its own way–Miller‘s account benefits from its linearity and a little more emotional distance. (I would recommend reading The Port Huron Statement–which is included as an appendix at the back of the book–first.) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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