Troublemaker: A Memoir from the Front Lines of the Sixties - Hardcover

Zimmerman, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385533489 ISBN 13: 9780385533485

Publisher: Doubleday, 2011

Synopsis

The author discusses his life as a risk-taking social advocate who dodged FBI gunfire to airlift food to Sioux Indians, registered black voters, marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and worked to end the Vietnam War, in a book where he also documents his interactions with such historic figures as Abbie Hoffman, César Chávez, Jane Fonda and more.

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HardCover. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 452 Publisher: Doubleday Books The political memoir as rousing adventure story-a Sizzling Account of a life lived in The Thick of every important struggle of the ERA April 1973: snow falls thick and fast on the Badlands of South Dakota. It has been more than five weeks since protestin

Review:

"Remarkable. . . . Activists today will want to read this inspiring story."
--Wes Boyd, Co-founder of MoveOn.org

"A smart, tough, incisive look at the politics of the '60s and how they impact us today. . . . Read it. Then go out and cause trouble."
--Robert Greenwald, Producer and Director, Brave New Films

"A well-written, passionate story of a personal journey through the Vietnam protest era, and a valuable model for progressive activists of our own time."
--The Nation

"Bill Zimmerman gives the lie to the old saw that if you remember the '60s you weren't there. . . . Zimmerman has written one hell of a page-turner."
--Paul Begala, CNN Political Consultant

"As thrilling as any true-life thriller. . . . At a time when journalists persist in judging the Occupy movement by its easily visible signs and accomplishments of the past hundred days, Troublemaker is a useful reminder of how much of a social movement takes place in a profusion of lives, under the surface, among the unfamous."
--Todd Gitlin, The New Republic

"A riveting book. Bill Zimmerman is a shining example of . . . a patriot his country can count on in dark times. . . . This is an inspiring story of a life committed to a better world. And, what a life! What a story!"
--Daniel Ellsberg

"Bill Zimmerman's memoir is a great adventure story. . . . Zimmerman's tales of derring-do are fused with insightful analysis, and a history we thought we knew is retold in surprising and moving ways."
--Richard Flacks, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara and Co-founder of Students for a Democratic Society

"Bill Zimmerman's wise and rollicking chronicle of his contrarian transit across the sixties and early seventies (a sort of cross between Zelig, Zorro, and Zapata) can help explain the political and cultural passions of that era, both to those who lived through them and to their progeny, better than any such text has yet managed to do. It's a vivid tale, elegantly dispatched."
--Lawrence Weschler, Director, New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU

"A thoughtful eyewitness history of America's war at home and a thrilling political adventure story. An engaging exhortation to take risks and live a meaningful life."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Exhilarating . . . a vivid evocation of the romanticism and extraordinary shifts in consciousness that the 1960s unleashed."
--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0385533489
• ISBN 13: 9780385533485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 452