1960s

Todd Gitlin was an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War. Today he is a writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California. His book is part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation and resurrects a generation in all its glory and tragedy.

An anthology of primary documents from the sixties that brings together representative writings from that period, many of which have been unavilable for years or have never been reprinted.

The untold story of the Weathermen and the Weather Underground from its incendiary beginnings to its tumultuous end. Uses dozens of in-depth interviews to trace the group's evolution in relation to civil rights, Black Power, and anti-war movements.

In 1969 America's counterculture youth experienced Woodstock. For them it was not just about sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll---it was about peace, love, and communal living. The core values of an entire generation were shifting and in 1969 music became its venue. This book celebrates the spirit of Woodstock.

In 1964, Carl Oglesby, a young copywriter for a Michigan-based defense contractor, was asked to draft a campaign paper on the Vietnam War. The subsequent publication of that paper, in which he argued that the conflict was misplaced and unwinnable, would put him on the fast track to becoming the president of the protest movement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).