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From Publishers Weekly
Gitlin, a Columbia University professor of sociology and journalism, is a former president of Students for a Democratic Society, SDS, an influential radical '60s group, one of whose primary focuses was anti-Vietnam War activities. Although his stated intention is to provide a guide for future activists, Gitlin may find a more receptive audience among baby boomers who participated in the '60s antiwar protests and have struggled to extract meaning from their own history. While Gitlin tries hard to convince his target audience that he understands them and once felt as they now feel-angry, impatient, outraged and above all convinced of his own rightness-it is unclear whether they would embrace his conclusions any more than Gitlin's generation embraced the suggestions of the Old Left. Such a response might be unfortunate, as Gitlin, who writes earnestly and has a knack for aphoristic observations, has some unusual points. For example, he derides Ralph Nader's third-party run for president as "narcissism wearing a cloak of ideals." He also offers insightful observations on the need for both outsider activists and sympathetic insiders to make meaningful changes in public policy, the dangers of identity politics and the requirement that activists willingly seek and accept institutional power. He eloquently argues for the need to resist the temptation of violence. On more than one occasion, however, Gitlin's prose is abstract and convoluted, verging on the overwrought. He also sometimes loses control of his metaphors ("when guilt and rage slip their leash, they murder the future in the name of an unsalvageable past"). By and large, though, this is a generous and well-meaning book, which may interest aging activists and, perhaps, the young audience at which it is aimed.
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From Booklist
Gitlin, Columbia University journalism professor and former president of the 1960s activist group Students for a Democratic Society, offers encouragement and cautionary notes to current-day activists. Written in the form of a personal letter to today's idealists, Gitlin's book concedes a focus on liberal causes, noting that the conservative impulse is to avoid change even when it is for the good: "no noise, no improvement." Looking back on his own experiences, Gitlin ponders those principles that have guided his own political actions and acknowledges the ponderous shadow that 1960s activism casts over the current generation. He encourages steadfastness, historical perspective, idealism tinged with realism, and faith. In separate chapters, all interspersed with recollections from the 1960s protest movements, Gitlin focuses on the character and discipline needed to sustain social movements, the need for compromise and tempering anger, and how to maintain patriotism and democratic ideals and continue to agitate for social justice. For former and current activists, this is a thoughtful and philosophical look at the personal delight and social efficacy of activism. Vanessa Bush
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Book Description
In the spirit of '60s activism, one of our era's most influential advocates of social and political change teaches protesters and dissenters how it was done, and how to keep doing it today.
"Be original. See what happens." So Todd Gitlin advises the young mind burning to take action to right the wrongs of the world but also looking for bearings, understanding, direction, and practical examples.

In Letters to a Young Activist, Todd Gitlin looks back at his eventful life, recalling his experience as president of the formidable Students for a Democratic Society in the '60s, contemplating the spirit of activism, and arriving at some principles of action to guide the passion and energy of those wishing to do good. He considers the three complementary motives of duty, love, and adventure, and reflects on the changing nature of idealism and how righteous action requires realistic as well as idealistic thinking. And he looks forward to an uncertain future that is nevertheless full of possibility, a future where patriotism and intelligent skepticism are not mutually exclusive.

Gitlin invites the young activist to enter imaginatively into some of the dilemmas, moral and practical, of being a modern citizen--the dilemmas that affect not only the problems of what to think but also the problems of what to love and how to live.

About the Author
Todd Gitlin is Professor of Culture, Journalism, and Sociology at New York University and University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including the classic The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. He lives in New York City.

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