🦃 Cozy up with autumn reads! Let our AI Librarian pick your perfect fireside book 🍁
Explore the literary world of this author
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Say “the Sixties” and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could c...
Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left
New preface for this classic of media studies. One of the founders of SDS describes the response of the various news organizations and arrives at the ...
Prime time: those precious few hours every night when the three major television networks garner millions of dollars while tens of millions of America...
"Be original. See what happens." So Todd Gitlin advises the young mind burning to take action to right the wrongs of the world but also looking for be...
With the end of the Cold War, the death of Communism, and the decline of Socialism, what are the primary issues, ideologies, and parties that now stru...
The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street
“[A] much needed book…a compelling portrait of the Occupy movement…that capture[s] the spirit of the people involved, the crisis that gave Occup...
A Novel
November 2004: George W. Bush is re–elected. Five days later, Alan Meister, a New York professor of philosophy, is diagnosed with lymphoma—not tha...
America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election
Americans and Israelis have often thought that their nations were chosen, in perpetuity, to do God’s work. This belief in divine election is a poten...
Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1995...
How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives
"A balanced yet biting critique . . . Gitlin is a savvy guide to our increasingly kinetic times."--San Francisco Chronicle In this original look at ou...
Examines our media-dominated world through the vast array of manufactured images and sounds that define our civilization, from video games to elevator...
"The tragedy of the left is that, having achieved an unprecedented victory in helping stop an appalling war, it then proceeded to commit suicide." So ...
Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals
"This book, by one of America's most intelligent and decent political writers, tells liberals how the conservative movement rose and fell, and how the...
Mass Media and the New Left, 1965-70
...
Mass Media in the Making & Unmaking of the New Left
Brash, sexy, investigative journalist Margo Ross runs her hip news program with wit and intelligence. Tipped off that Albert Einstein might have been ...
Gitlin looks back at his eventful life, recalling his experience as president of the formidable Students for a Democratic Society in the '60s, contemp...
On civil rights and America's 1960s New Left movement. Set during America's 1960s New Left movement, The Opposition tells the story of twenty-somethin...
On Passion, Character, Values, and Style from Bush's Folly to the Liberal Opening