Direct Action – Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven (Paper) - Softcover

Tracy, James

 
9780226811307: Direct Action – Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven (Paper)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226811301 ISBN 13: 9780226811307
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1996

Synopsis

This text tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists" - nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin played a major role in the rebirth of American radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s. Coming together in the camps and prisons where conscientious objectors were placed during World War II, radical pacifists developed an experimental protest style that emphasized media-savvy, symbolic confrontation with institutions deemed oppressive. Due to their tactical commitment to nonviolent direct action, they became the principal interpreters of Gandhism on the American Left, and indelibly stamped postwar America with their methods and ethos.

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About the Author

James Tracy is headmaster at Cushing Academy in Ashbunham, MA. He is editor of Why Change? What Works? The NAIS Guide to Change Management and A Guidebook to the NAIS Principles of Good Practice, as well as coeditor of Christmas Unwrapped: Consumerism, Christ, and Culture.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226811301
ISBN 13 
9780226811307
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
212

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