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Autore: | Wittner Lawrence S |
Titolo: | Working for peace and justice [[electronic resource] ] : memoirs of an activist intellectual / / Lawrence S. Wittner |
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 | |
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.: | 9910822885903321 |
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