Todd Gitlin
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Todd Gitlin (born 1943) is an American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He has written widely on the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular and scholarly publications. He is on the editorial board of Dissent, where he is a frequent contributor.
Gitlin is a former president of Students for a Democratic Society — of whose later politics and tactics he is now a prominent critic. He helped organize the first[citation needed] national demonstration against the Vietnam War, as well as the first[citation needed] civil disobedience directed against American corporate support for the apartheid regime in South Africa.
A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Gitlin attended Harvard University, the University of Michigan and the University of California, Berkeley. He taught for many years at U.C. Berkeley, and is currently a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University.
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| “ | My generation of the New Left — a generation that grew as the [Vietnam] war went on — relinquished any title to patriotism without much sense of loss. All that was left to the Left was to unearth righteous traditions and cultivate them in universities. The much-mocked political correctness of the next academic generations was a consolation prize. We lost — we squandered the politics — but won the textbooks. | ” |
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- Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (1970) ISBN 0-06-090235-3
- Busy Being Born (1974) ISBN 0-87932-073-7
- The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the Left (1980) ISBN 0-520-23932-6
- Inside Prime Time (1983) ISBN 0-520-21785-3
- The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1987) ISBN 0-553-37212-2
- Watching Television, editor (1987) ISBN 0-394-54496-X
- The Murder of Albert Einstein (1992) ISBN 0-553-37366-8
- The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars (1995) ISBN 0-8050-4091-9.
- Sacrifice (1999) ISBN 0-8050-6032-4
- Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2002) ISBN 0-8050-7283-7
- Letters To a Young Activist (2003) ISBN 0-465-02738-5
- "Varieties of Patriotic Experience," in The Fight Is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World, ed. George Packer (New York: Perennial, 2003). ISBN 0-06-053249-1
- The Intellectuals and the Flag (2006) ISBN 0-231-12492-9
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