David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary

by Andrew Hunt

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The year was 1969. In a Chicago courthouse, David Dellinger, one of the Chicago Eight, stood trial for conspiring to disrupt the National Democratic Convention. Dellinger, a long-time but relatively unknown activist, was suddenly, at fifty-three, catapulted into the limelight for his part in this intense courtroom drama.
From obscurity to leader of the antiwar movement, David Dellinger is the first full biography of a man who bridged the gap between the Old Left and the New Left. Born in 1915 in the upscale Boston suburb of Wakefield to privilege, Dellinger attended Yale during the Depression, where he became...

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  • ISBN10 0814737293
  • ISBN13 9780814737293
  • Publish Date 1 May 2006
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 23 April 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint New York University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 358
  • Language English