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Autore |
Wittner Lawrence S |
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Titolo |
Working for peace and justice [[electronic resource] ] : memoirs of an activist intellectual / / Lawrence S. Wittner |
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Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-12509-8 |
9786613528957 |
1-57233-895-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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Collana |
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Soggetti |
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Intellectuals - United States |
Political activists - United States |
Pacifists - United States |
Scholars - United States |
Historians - United States |
Student movements - United States - History - 20th century |
Peace movements - History - 20th century |
Social justice - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Family Background -- Brooklyn Boyhood, 1941-1958 -- College Days, 1958-1962 -- Graduate School, 1962-1967 -- A Young Faculty Member, 1967-1972 -- Overseas Exile, 1972-1974 -- Grappling with Issues of Work and Love, 1974-1980 -- An Activist Academic, 1981-1989 -- A National and International Figure, 1990-2001 -- Growing Old, but Not Gracefully, 2001-2011 -- In Retrospect. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A longtime agitator against war and social injustice, Lawrence Wittner has been tear-gassed, threatened by police with drawn guns, charged by soldiers with fixed bayonets, spied upon by the U.S. government, arrested, and purged from his job for political -reasons. To say that this teacher-historian-activist has led an interesting life is a |
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considerable understatement. In this absorbing memoir, Wittner traces the dramatic course of a life and career that took him from a Brooklyn boyhood in the 1940's and '50's to an education at Columbia University and the University of Wis |
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