{"product_id":"a-time-to-stir-9780231182751","title":"A Time to Stir","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor seven days in April 1968, students occupied five buildings on the Columbia University campus. \u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir\u003c\/i\u003e captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion with more than sixty essays that shed light on the politics, passions, and ideals of the 1960s and the complicated legacy of the uprising.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis kaleidoscopic book does justice, at last, to the vortex of energies, passions, and illusions that boiled up in the cauldron of Columbia 1968. In \u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir\u003c\/i\u003e, the indefatigable Paul Cronin has assembled a fascinating range of chronicles and revelations that greatly illuminate one of the central confrontations of the sixties. -- Todd Gitlin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this richly contextualized collection of essays written by participants involved in the student protests at Columbia University in the spring of 1968, historian Paul Cronin treats the topic as comprehensively as possible. \u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir\u003c\/i\u003e showcases a broad range of perspectives, draws out numerous themes, and reminds us why the Columbia rebellion remains relevant today. \u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir\u003c\/i\u003e also makes for dramatic, exciting, and provocative reading. This is can't-put-it-down history. -- John McMillian, Georgia State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir \u003c\/i\u003ecreates an extraordinary, fair-minded portrait of Columbia '68 and the effect it had on many of its participants. The myth is still out there of elite '60s-era student protesters leaving behind their radical youths soon after graduation. Columbia '68ers did not as a whole simply put their radical student days behind them but instead used their experiences and changed viewpoints to build new progressive lives that affected American society. -- David Farber, University of Kansas\u003cbr\u003eBy collecting and arranging the testimonies of the historical actors who participated in  perhaps the most well-known American student rebellion in the post-WWII era, \u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir\u003c\/i\u003e has issued a favor to future researchers.  The breadth of perspectives in the book will pay deep dividends for those seeking to understand youth, power, and institutional change. -- Stefan Bradley, Loyola Marymount University\u003cbr\u003eMore than 60 participants and witnesses to the uprising provide impassioned, first-person accounts leavened by hindsight, but rekindled by stirring contemporary events. -- Sam Roberts * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eThe definitive book on the Columbia student uprising. -- Clara Bingham * Vanity Fair *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir\u003c\/i\u003e enables us to receive a comprehensive understanding of those seven days of chaos on the university’s campus, as it serves as a platform for the views of individuals from different and opposing sides. . . . This meticulously edited work serves as a powerful tool to look back to this exemplary moment of student activism and willingness to fight the status quo for what is right. * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir: Columbia ’68\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent source book and will no doubt be of great value to future historians of the Sixties. -- Jonah Raskin * CounterPunch *\u003cbr\u003eA mesmerizing historical composite in which a core narrative is retold through multiple refractions. . . . The shared hope is that new generations, as if called by history, will find their own time and way to be brave and make a difference. -- Jeremy Varon * The American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir: Columbia ’68\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning achievement of historical perspective, grappling with an incendiary moment defined only by passion and pandemonium. The final result is the opposite of an organized consensus; the voices are older, wiser, but their stories still surge in an unbroken thread with their beliefs from half a century ago. * The Bowery Boys *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable collection. -- Frank A. Guridy * The Columbia Daily Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eThe wealth of detail, along with several amusing and poignant personal reflections, make it worth a read. * The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture *\u003cbr\u003eExhilarating to some and deeply troubling to others, the student  protests paralyzed the university, grabbed the world’s attention, and  inspired other uprisings. Fifty years after the events, \u003ci\u003eA Time to Stir\u003c\/i\u003e captures the reflections of those who participated in and witnessed the Columbia rebellion. * The New York History Blog *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword, by Paul Berman\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChronology of Events\u003cbr\u003e1. Children of the New Age, by Nancy Biberman\u003cbr\u003e2. Inside Alienation, Outside Agitator, by J. Plunky Branch\u003cbr\u003e3. Race and the Specter of Strategic Blindness, by Raymond M. Brown\u003cbr\u003e4. Liberation News Service and the Columbia Student Revolt, by George Cavalletto\u003cbr\u003e5. A Working Class Veteran’s Perspective, by Mark Donnelly\u003cbr\u003e6. Constructions of Power, by Thomas Ehrenberg\u003cbr\u003e7. You Gave Us Hope, by Carolyn Rusti Eisenberg\u003cbr\u003e8. A People’s Prehistory of Columbia, 1968, by Bob Feldman\u003cbr\u003e9. “\u003ci\u003ePossibilistes\u003c\/i\u003e” vs. “\u003ci\u003eMaximalistes\u003c\/i\u003e”: How It Went Down in Fayerweather, by Larry Garner\u003cbr\u003e10. Attempting to “Hold the Center” at Columbia, 1968, by Michael Garrett\u003cbr\u003e11. The Man Who Shook My Hand, by Stuart Gedal\u003cbr\u003e12. In the Spirit of Reconciliation, by Bennett Gershman\u003cbr\u003e13. How I Become a National News Source: Columbia’s Office of Public Information, by Ira Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e14. The Jolt of Radicalization, by Ken Greenberg\u003cbr\u003e15. Daddy’s Girl, by Lois-Elaine Griffith\u003cbr\u003e16. The Columbia Stir-Fry, by Peter Haidu\u003cbr\u003e17. The Great Morningside Rising, by Robert W. Hanning\u003cbr\u003e18. From Columbia 1968 to Fort Leavenworth, by Susan Eva Heuman\u003cbr\u003e19. The Essence of Spirit Is Freedom, by Neal H. Hurwitz\u003cbr\u003e20. The Smartest Kids I’d Ever Met: Memories of a Columbia Rebel, by Tom Hurwitz\u003cbr\u003e21. Who Be the Dominator?, by Michael Johnson\u003cbr\u003e22. The Moral Obligation to Act, by Susan Kahn\u003cbr\u003e23. Columbia in the Community, by Thomas M .H. Kappner\u003cbr\u003e24. Mutiny in the Air, by Ted Kaptchuk\u003cbr\u003e25. Liberated Fayerweather: Agony and Ecstasy While Awaiting the NYPD, by Frank Kehl\u003cbr\u003e26. The Special Case of the Fayerweather Occupation, by William Keylor\u003cbr\u003e27. A Time for Revolt, by Michael Klare\u003cbr\u003e28. Getting Back to “Life as Normal”, by Jay Kriegel\u003cbr\u003e29. The Power of Power Structure Research, by Michael Locker\u003cbr\u003e30. Days of Whine and Ruses, by Phillip Lopate\u003cbr\u003e31. A Time to Stir . . . Up Trouble, by Frederick K. Lowell\u003cbr\u003e32. The Primary Shades of Opposition to the Columbia Occupation, by Vaud E. Massarsky\u003cbr\u003e33. No More Antiwar! The Rise of the Therapeutic Left, by Michael Neumann\u003cbr\u003e34. Already Dead: Inside Low Library Commune, by Hilton Obenzinger\u003cbr\u003e35. A Night to Remember, by Fred Pack\u003cbr\u003e36. Silence Is Compliance, by Dan Pellegrom\u003cbr\u003e37. On the Air: A View from WKCR, by Jon Perelstein\u003cbr\u003e38. Columbia and the Draft, by David F. Phillips\u003cbr\u003e39. Impressions of a Rookie Cop, by John Poka\u003cbr\u003e40. The Sound of Breaking Glass, by Henry Reichman\u003cbr\u003e41. Hats and Bats, by Mike Reynolds\u003cbr\u003e42. Stopping the Machine, by Eve Rosahn\u003cbr\u003e43. Life on the Ledge, by Michael Rosenthal\u003cbr\u003e44. How I Learned I Was a Menshevik, by Joshua Rubenstein\u003cbr\u003e45. What It Takes to Build a Movement, by Mark Rudd\u003cbr\u003e46. Self-Determination and Self-Respect: Hamilton Hall, Fifty Years Later, by William W. Sales Jr.\u003cbr\u003e47. Long Ago and Not at All Far Away, by Bill Sharfman\u003cbr\u003e48. Columbia 1968: My Course Correction, by Marvin Sin\u003cbr\u003e49. Uniters, by Gene Slater\u003cbr\u003e50. A Sense of Rightness, by Susan Slyomovics\u003cbr\u003e51. Avery Hall to Urban Deadline, by Tyler Smith\u003cbr\u003e52. Forming Community, Forging Commitment: A Hamilton Hall Story, by Karla Spurlock-Evans\u003cbr\u003e53. From College Walk to the Stonewall Inn, by Peter Stamberg\u003cbr\u003e54. Five Red Flags, by Eleanor Stein\u003cbr\u003e55. Never Again?, by Michael Steinlauf\u003cbr\u003e56. Covering—and Covering Up—Spring ’68, by Michael Stern\u003cbr\u003e57. Hundreds of Pairs of Wings, by Johnny Sundstrom\u003cbr\u003e58. Political Education and the Birth of Students for a Restructured University, by John Thoms\u003cbr\u003e59. It’s Better to Build Up: Post-’68 Governance at Columbia, by Harold S. Wechsler\u003cbr\u003e60. A Foot Soldier’s Story of the Sit-Ins, by Meredith Sue Willis\u003cbr\u003e61. From Community Service to Political Action: The Evolution of the Citizenship Council, by Joel D. Ziff\u003cbr\u003eAfterword by Juan Gonzalez\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400318984535,"sku":"9780231182751","price":20.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231182751.jpg?v=1730470376","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-time-to-stir-9780231182751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}