David Dellinger [[electronic resource] ] : the life and times of a nonviolent revolutionary / / Andrew E. Hunt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455924403321
• Autore: Hunt Andrew E. <1968->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0-8147-9083-6; 0-8147-3729-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Disciplina: 959.704/31092; B
• Soggetti: Radicals - United States; Political activists - United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Protest movements; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-332) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Wakefield; 2 The Education of a Pacifist; 3 The Hole; 4 "Conchies"; 5 A Rebel in Cold-War America; 6 Winds of Change; 7 The Birth of a Movement; 8 Gandhi and Guerrilla; 9 The Road to Chicago; 10 Disrupting the Holy Mysteries; 11 Staying the Course; 12 Making Peace in Vermont; 13 Farewell, Tough Guy; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: The year was 1969. In a Chicago courthouse, David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Eight, stood trial for conspiring to disrupt the National Democratic Convention. Dellinger, a long-time but relatively unknown activist, was suddenly, at fifty-three, catapulted into the limelight for his part in this intense courtroom drama. From obscurity to leader of the antiwar movement, David Dellinger is the first full biography of a man who bridged the gap between the Old Left and the New Left. Born in 1915 in the upscale Boston suburb of Wakefield to privilege, Dellinger attended Yale during the Depression,