radicalism

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radicalism

Run Run run

the lives of Abbie Hoffman
1994
Intertwines the details of Abbie Hoffman's intense personal life with the dramatic politics of the sixties, seventies, and eighties.

Destructive generation

second thoughts about the sixties
1989
A political analysis and memoir examines why the legacy of the radical sixties threatens America today.

Second thoughts

former radicals look back at the sixties
1989

Bombs, beards, and barricades

150 years of youth in revolt
1972

Reconciliation

Islam, democracy, and the West
2009
Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto discusses the rise of Islamic radicalism, contending that autocratic rulers, manipulative religious leaders, and the Western world have threatened the chance of democracy in Pakistan.

Green rage

radical environmentalism and the unmaking of civilization
1990
Traces the movement's origins to the 1970s, and discusses the rise of Deep Ecology which challenges the ethics of modern industrial society.

Extremist groups

opposing viewpoints
2005
Contains twenty-four essays that offer opposing viewpoints on extremist groups, debating issues related to religious groups, liberals, white supremacists, and terrorists.

His illegal self

2008
Seven-year-old Che, raised in privilege by his New York grandmother, is kidnapped in 1972 by Dial, a young Vassar professor who has agreed to bring the boy to his parents--former student radicals who are wanted by the FBI, and while Dial finds her task much more complicated than she had imagined it would be, Che looks at the time on the run and in a seedy Australian commune, as a grand adventure and chance to bond with Dial who he has come to regard as a mother.

Democracy is in the streets

from Port Huron to the siege of Chicago
1987
Recreates the turbulent history of the people and ideas that shaped the New Left, and America, during the 1960s.

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