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Book Jacket LITTLE RED
Three Passionate Lives through the Sixties and Beyond
DINA HAMPTON
SUMMARY  |  EXCERPT
The compelling, interwoven life stories of three remarkable schoolmates illuminate the rise, demise, and long-lasting impact of the radical political movements of the 1960s

In the 1960s, a remarkable crop of students graduated from a small, New York City school renowned for progressive pedagogy and left-wing politics: Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School.

Entering college at the peak of the transformative era we now call The Sixties, three of these "Little Redders" would go on to change the course of American history: Angela Davis, African American intellectual activist and Communist Party member; SDS activist and filmmaker Tom Hurwitz; and Elliott Abrams, who would play a key role in the Republican Neoconservative movement.

Based on extensive original interviews and archival research, Little Red follows these characters' divergent, occasionally intersecting, public and private paths through the seminal events and political struggles of the second half of the twentieth century, from the civil rights movement to the Vietnam War; the Summer of Love to radical feminism; Iran-Contra to Occupy Wall Street.

Dina Hampton is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and has worked for more than a decade as a reporter and editor for publications including the New York Times and the Daily News. She is a late 1970s graduate of Little Red and also later served as its alumni director and archivist. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN 978-1586480936
Pub date: 03/12/13
Price: $25.99/29.00 Canada
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
336 pages
352
Biography, History
Selling Territory: WxUK,CW
Rights: First serial, Audio, Electronic rights: PublicAffairs
British Commonwealth, translation, Performance rights: Gernert Agency

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