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Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin succeeded Tom Hayden as president of SDS, and now professes journalism, communications, and American Studies at Columbia University. He has published sixteen books and his next is a novel set in the sixties, The Opposition.

Tom Hayden and the Vocation of Politics

October 26, 2016
There’s a revelatory scene in a hard-to-find documentary, Troublemakers, shot by Norm Fruchter and Bob Machover in 1965 in the poor wards of Newark, N.J. Tom Hayden and some 100 others had left their rather comfy college-kid lives when Students for a Democratic ...