The sixties activist turned 1980s legislator tells of his involvement in student movements, his visits to Hanoi, and the events of the 1968 Democratic convention, describes his personal life, and reaffirms his commitment to dissent

Reunion: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Hayden, Tom

Regional U.S.

Crowell-Collier Pr

The love of possession is a disease with them,

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

"The Conspiracy Trial was both a nightmare and an awakening...It was Kafka's trial - six months of living in Judge Hoffman's neon oven, a trial that symbolized the beginning of full-scale political repression in the United States, a trial of the entire protest generation of the 1960's, a trial that foreshadowed the resistance of the 70's... testing ultimately whether the country will destroy itself or change in revolutionary ways."

Trial

Holt; Rinehart; Winston

Why those who protested the Vietnam War must be honored, remembered, and appreciated “Hell no” was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history—the effort to end the Vietnam War, which included thousands of veterans. The movement was divided among radicals, revolutionaries, sectarians, moderates, and militants, which legions of paid FBI informants and government provocateurs tried to destroy. Despite these obstacles millions marched, resisted the draft on campuses, and forced two sitting presidents from office. This movement was a watershed in our history, yet today it is in danger of being forgotten, condemned by its critics for everything from cowardice to stab-in-the-back betrayal. In this indispensable essay, Tom Hayden, a principal anti-Vietnam War organizer, calls to account elites who want to forget the Vietnam peace movement and excoriates those who trivialize its impact, engage in caricature of protesters and question their patriotism. In so doing, he seeks both a reckoning and a healing of national memory.

Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

History

Americas

Yale University Press

Random House]

"Every now and then, there's a surge of history in which a group of people has the chance to determine events by taking their lives, their destiny, into their own hands." Tom Hayden was a central figure in the Vietnam War peace movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He shows what social movements look like from the inside. He spells out why they are intense, complex, exhilarating -- and powerful enough to make history. These four unpublished talks and the Rolling Stone interview were all given by Tom Hayden from 1972 to 1977, while he was still in his thirties and events of that time were still unfolding. This book is full of ideas.

Tom Hayden on Social Movements: Four unpublished talks and the Rolling Stone interview

Historical

Paul Ryder

From Tom Hayden - a 1960s radical and longtime progressive California legislator - here is an impassioned plea for reclaiming our spiritual bond with the earth. Hayden argues that the basis of our present environmental crisis was laid long ago, when tribal systems of belief were replaced by formal religions. Nature-based mysticism gave way to human-centered theologies that desanctified the earth and taught people to see themselves as dominant over nature. If we want to heal the destructive divide that exists between the human spirit and the natural world, we must retrieve the "lost gospel of the earth" by which people live in kinship with a sacred natural world. Hayden finds that Christianity, Judaism, and Buddhism have defaulted on the environmental crisis, but believes that their earlier currents of native mysticism can be restored and applied to the present. Technical fixes and economic incentives will not cure our pathological addiction to making progress at the expense of the earth. Hayden blends personal spirituality with concrete political vision into a new politics that is grounded in environmental economics with a moral core. This new "politics of the spirit," drawing on the tradition of participatory democracy as well as the theories of ecotheology, calls for nothing less than the transformation of our entire political culture.

The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, and Politics

Religion & Spirituality

Sierra Club Books

From his earliest days as a Freedom Rider and leader of Students for a Democratic Society, through decades as a state senator, to contemporary notes on the Iraq war, the global South, immigration and spirituality, Tom Hayden’s writings constitute nothing less than an alternative history of our times.
Writings for a Democratic Society is the only book that encapsulates Tom Hayden’s writings over fifty years, a time in which he has been a reflective eyewitness to American history in the making. The book is composed on sections about the new Left of the 1960s, the Chicago 8, Vietnam, electoral politics, gang violence, Ireland, the environment, global justice and US foreign policy today.
"Tom Hayden changed America," the national correspondent of The Atlantic, Nicholas Lemann, has written. He created the "blueprint for the Great Society programs," according to presidential assistant Richard Goodwin. He was the "single greatest figure of the 1960s student movement," according to The New York Times Book Review. Forty years later he was described as "the conscience of the Senate."
"His journey is our journey through the tumultuous and disillusioning decades. He is our Everyman, he is us."—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"One comes away enthralled by Hayden’s odyssey."—The Boston Sunday Globe
Tom Hayden is the author or editor of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including Reunion and Street Wars.

Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader

City Lights Publishers

Looks at what lies ahead for the American economy, energy policy, health care, politics, and international relations, and proposes the direction the nation must take

The American Future: New Visions Beyond Old Frontiers

South End Press

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Reunion: A Memoir

The love of possession is a disease with them,

Trial

The love of possession is a disease with them,

Hell No: The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

Reunion: A Memoir

Tom Hayden on Social Movements: Four unpublished talks and the Rolling Stone interview

The Lost Gospel of the Earth: A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, and Politics

Writings for a Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader

The American Future: New Visions Beyond Old Frontiers