Gitlin, The Sixties (1993)

Todd Gitlin.
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, revised edition.
New York: Bantam Books (Random House), 1993 (first published 1987).

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Some Todd Gitlin links:

• Todd Gitlin, Wikipedia.
• Todd Gitlin, ToddGitlin.net, his website.
• Todd Gitlin, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.
• Todd Gitlin articles at The Nation.
• Todd Gitlin articles at Salon.com.
• Todd Gitlin, "The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs," TomDispatch.com, 27 June 2013.

I have collected links/references, including many lecture videos, on the history of the United States during the 1960s in my posts for the following books:

• Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (1994).
• Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996).

Gitlin's book is a mixture: part personal and political memoir of the SDS and New Left; part historical survey of the 1960s. Readers should probably have read one of the more general historical survey books like that of Farber or Patterson before reading Gitlin's book.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Students for a Democratic Society (1960-1969).
• Port Huron Statement (1962).
• New Left (1960s).
• Weathermen / Weather Underground.
• COINTELPRO.
• United States in the 1950s.
• 1960s.
• History of the United States (1945–64).
• History of the United States (1964–80).
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Counterculture of the 1960s.
• Vietnam War.
• African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68).
• Feminist Movement.

A more recent book by Todd Gitlin:

Todd Gitlin. Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street. New York: It Books / HarperCollins Publishers, 2012.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

• Todd Gitlin, "OCCUPY The Moment, The Movement, The Future," University of Illinois at Chicago, 24 February 2012. Vimeo video.
• Book TV at Columbia University: Todd Gitlin, "Occupy Nation", BookTV.org, C-SPAN2, 04 June 2012.
  In this C-SPAN conversation Gitlin also answers questions about his political activism during the 1960s.
• "Occupy's Predicament: The Moment and the Prospects for Movement," London School of Economics, 18 October 2012.
  LSE event webpage. YouTube video.
• "A Book Talk with Todd Gitlin," Machiah Center, New Gloucester, Maine and Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 11 September 2012.
  Machiah Center event webpage. YouTube video.