This memoir by a leading New Left organizer poses tough questions,
provides some answers born from front-line experience, and
challenges readers to do what it takes to save our country. Noam
Chomsky praises the book for its "very valuable insights, from the
perspective of a leading and effective participant, into the highly
significant popular movements of the past half century, their
successes and failures, the lessons to be learned, the prospects
for the future." Working families in America face foreclosures and
joblessness unparalleled since the Great Depression. This crisis
has been compounded by a feeble response from the government and
the rise of an angry right. How did this happen? How should
progressives respond? What lessons might the past hold? Learning
from the Sixties offers some insightful and hard-won answers. John
Maher came of age in the 1960s and has been in the thick of things
ever since: as an organizer, a factory worker, a schoolteacher, and
an educator. In Learning from the Sixties, he traces his progress
from a privileged background in Houston, Texas, to volunteering as
an anti-war activist to becoming a leader of the New Left. Along
the way he amassed a 2,000-page FBI file and a place on the FBI's
list of the top forty leaders of "the opposition." Maher gives us
an honest and clear-eyed perspective on what truly happened at many
of the events that marked that decade of tumult--from Vietnam
Summer to the streets of Chicago after the murder of Martin Luther
King Jr., to the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National
Convention, and beyond. Later, based on those formative organizing
experiences, Maher helped build Neighbor to Neighbor, a
working-class-led organization that continues to have a major
impact on Massachusetts politics. Says Jim McGovern, U.S.
congressman from Worcester, Massachusetts, "It is a great example
of what needs to be done around the country, now more than ever."
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