Product Description: Barack Obama would not be possible without the Sixties, Tom Hayden writes in his unique and compelling new book. Obama was conceived because of changing mores on interracial marriage; was electable because of the civil rights movement and voting rights laws; and was successful because of a new social movement that applied participatory democracy online and door to door...read more

Product Description: “His journey is our journey through the tumultuous and disillusioning decades. He is our Everyman, he is us.”—Seattle Post-IntelligencerPraise for Tom Hayden:“One comes away enthralled by Hayden’s odyssey...read more

The noted activist discusses the sources of the Iraq War, conditions in Iraq that underlie the insurgency, and the origins of the peace movement in the United States, and offers his suggestions for how protestors can help end the war.

Product Description: More timely and necessary than ever in the wake of recent calamities like Hurricane Katrina and the Republican war against the environment, The Lost Gospel of the Earth is legendary activist Tom Hayden’s eco-spiritual call for revamping traditional religious doctrine to reflect a greater environmental consciousness, which he believes is the only way to save the planet from catastrophe...read more

An impassioned survey of gang activity and youth violence in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York offers insight into gang culture and the high number of deaths that have occurred as a result of gang activity throughout the past twenty-five years, in an account that criticizes current policies that serve to victimize inner-city youths. Reprint.

Product Description: We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life; that society be organized to encourage independence in men and provide the media for their common participation ...read more

Product Description: As the clock struck midnight on January 1, 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower rang in the New Year at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. Eisenhower mingled with Augusta s white, male members. Women were not allowed to join this exclusive club...read more

Product Description: Tom Hayden explores the losses wrought by Irish American conformism, in his own life and beyond.Tom Hayden first realized he was 'Irish on the inside' when he heard civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland singing 'We Shall Overcome' in 1969...read more

Presents essays, interviews, articles, and correspondence centering on the revolutionary conflict in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. (view table of contents)

Amazon.com Review: Tom Hayden, antiwar activist of the 1960s, has lately been spending much time exploring his ancestors' lives in the Ireland of the famine years. Enlisting contributors on both sides of the water, among them Eavan Boland, Jimmy Breslin, Seamus Heaney, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, and Tim Pat Coogan, Hayden here offers a collection of personal responses to that historic catastrophe--which, more than one essayist notes, not only killed and displaced millions of Irish but also undid much of traditional Irish culture, for, as Ní Dhomhnaill notes, 90 percent of the Famine's victims were monolingual Irish speakers, and with them perished a huge store of knowledge and memory...read more

Product Description: Renowned Irish and Irish-American contributors—actors, activists, poets, journalists, politicians, and historians—offer moving commentaries and modern perspectives on the events and aftermath of the 19th century Irish famine, an historical event of such tragic proportions that it continues to shape the Irish psyche on both sides of the Atlantic...read more

Product Description: The historic first edition of 1962, in a slightly corrected edition. The classic founding statement of the Students For A Democratic Society (SDS).

The sixties activist turned 1980s legislator tells of his involvement in student movements, his visits to Hanoi, and the events of the 1968 Democratic convention, describes his personal life, and reaffirms his commitment to dissent

Looks at what lies ahead for the American economy, energy policy, health care, politics, and international relations, and proposes the direction the nation must take

Looks at what lies ahead for the American economy, energy policy, health care, politics, and international relations, and proposes the direction the nation must take