Working for peace and justice [[electronic resource] ] : memoirs of an activist intellectual / / Lawrence S. Wittner

• Autore: Wittner Lawrence S
• Pubblicazione: Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (285 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/52092; B
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Working for peace and justice
• ISBN: 1-280-12509-8; 9786613528957; 1-57233-895-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464138703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Legacies of war