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Working for peace and justice : memoirs of an activist intellectual / Lawrence S. Wittner.
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Ebscohost Ebooks University Press Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wittner, Lawrence S.
- Series:
- Legacies of war
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectuals--United States--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Political activists--United States--Biography.
- Political activists.
- Pacifists--United States--Biography.
- Pacifists.
- Scholars--United States--Biography.
- Scholars.
- Historians--United States--Biography.
- Historians.
- Student movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Student movements.
- Peace movements--History--20th century.
- Peace movements.
- Social justice--History--20th century.
- Social justice.
- State University of New York at Albany--Faculty--Biography.
- State University of New York at Albany.
- Wittner, Lawrence S.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (285 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613528957
- 9781572339705
- 1572339705
- 9781280125096
- 1280125098
- 9781572338951
- 1572338954
- OCLC:
- 779828655
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