"You didn't have to be there": revisiting the new left consensus / John McMillian -- "It seemed a very local affair": the student movement at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale / Robbie Lieberman and David Cochran -- Between despair and hope: revisiting Studies on the left / Kevin Mattson -- Building the new south: the southern student organizing committee / Gregg L. Michel -- The black freedom struggle and white resistance: a case study of the civil rights movement in Cambridge, Maryland / Peter B. Levy -- Organizing from the bottom up: Lillian Craig, Dovie Thurman, and the politics of ERAP / Jennifer Frost -- Death city radicals: the counterculture in Los Angeles / David McBride -- How new was the new left? / Andrew Hunt -- Strategy and democracy in the new left / Francesca Polletta -- The "point of ultimate indignity" or a "beloved community"? The draft resistance movement and gender dynamics / Michael S. Foley -- Losing our kids: queer perspectives on the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial / Ian Lekus -- Between revolution 9 and thesis 11: or, will we learn (again) to start worrying and change the world? / Jeremy Varon -- Letting go: revisiting the new left's demise / Doug Rossinow -- How sweet it wasn't: the scholars and the CIA / Paul Buhle.
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Starting with the premise that it is possible to say something new about the 1960s and the New Left, this work traces the social roots, the various paths, and the legacies of the movement that set out to change America.