Thursday October 14th, 2010 7:30 PMBOOK PARTY & FORUM
The Hidden 1970s
Histories of Radicalism
Dan Berger, Andy Cornell, Vikki Law, Matt Meyer, Ben Sheppard & Meg Starr
The 1970s were a complex, multilayered, and critical part of a long era of profound societal change. The Hidden 1970s explores the distinctiveness of those years, a time when radicals tried to change the world as the world changed around them. This powerful collection is a compelling assessment of a wide variety of left-wing social movements during a period that many have described as dominated by conservatism or confusion.
Join author/editor Dan Berger and various contributors examine critical and largely buried legacies of the 1970s and discuss their essays which provide fascinating insight into the myriad ways that radical social movements shaped American political culture in the 1970s and how they continue to do so today.
Dan Berger is the author of Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity, and the coeditor ofLetters From Young Activists. A longtime anti-prison activist, his writings have appeared in a variety of scholarly and leftist publications. He is the George Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania
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