Fare thee well to activist/historian/author Todd Gitlin. I read his book The Sixties: Years Of Hope, Days Of Rage the year it was published (when I was in high school), and to say it was a big inspiration on my way of thinking would be a major understatement. The book made me seek out so much, and helped form my early political outlook. He caught criticim in later years (much of it unwarrented in my mind), but stayed true to his basic ideals which first gained an audience back when he was president of the Students For A Democratic Society. The world lost an important fighter, thinker and chronicler. May his memory be a blessing.
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