Revolution in the air is what we need to stop global heating. CB ________________________________
* Subject: [A-List] "Revolution in the Air" Dear friends, After two hardcover printings, a new paperback edition of "Revolution in the Air" has just come off the press. The paperback includes a new preface Offering some thoughts on what the history of 1960s-70s radicalism looks like from a post-9/11 vantage point, and what it might mean for activism today. Marking the paperback release, MRZine has just posted an interview with me about the book and the challenges facing today's left - you can find it at _http://www.MRZine.org_ (http://www.MRZine.org) Reviews of the hardback edition, a chronology of events affecting radical movements from 1954 to 1992, and other materials are all available at _http://www.revolutionintheair.com_ (http://www.revolutionintheair.com) This site will be upgraded, and new material added, later this month. You are invited to submit your own comments on the book, or on the political topics and history it addresses, for posting. Send your thoughts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Below is the press release from Verso announcing the paperback's publication. Thanks for your time, peace, Max -------------------- New in paperback with a new preface by the author REVOLUTION IN THE AIR Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che MAX ELBAUM "Max Elbaum has given us an incisive and critical history of the Other New Left - the radicals who brought class struggle and Third World liberation to the forefront, looked to the world for allies, and tried their best to work through the dynamics of race *and* class. If you still believe sixties radicalism was nothing more than youthful middle-class confusion or parochial identity politics, then open these pages and dig." --Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Revolution in the Air is a major interpretive history that transforms our understanding of 1960s radicalism, detailing the work of activists who turned to Third World-oriented versions of Marxism and for a decade anchored the most dynamic and racially integrated trend on the US Left. Enthusiastically reviewed in the Los Angeles Times ("required reading for those interested in the modern history of social movements") and the Village Voice, ("an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship"),Revolution in the Air is now available in a paperback edition, which includes a new preface by the author discussing the lessons of the 1960s for a post-9/11 world, and confronts George W. Bush's open-ended "war on terror." Max Elbaum was a member of Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s, and a leader of one of the main New Communist Movement organizations in the 70s and 80s. His writings have appeared in the Nation, Radical History Review and the Encyclopedia of the American Left. Publication: October 13, 2006 New in Paperback 1 84467 563 7 $23/$30CAN __ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
