Democracy Is in the Streets

by Miller, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780674197251
• ISBN10: 0674197259
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-20
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

On June 12, 1962, sixty young student activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in the Streets is the definitive history of the major people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during that turbulent decade. Because the 1960s generation is now moving into positions of power in politics, education, the media, and business, their early history is crucial to our understanding. James Miller, in his new Preface, puts the 1960s and them into a context for our time, claiming that something of value did happen: "Most of the large questions raised by that moment of chaotic openness--political questions about the limits of freedom, and cultural questions, too, about the authority of the past and the anarchy of the new--are with us still."

Table of Contents

Preface: The 1960s in the 1990s	1	(10)
Introduction: Port Huron and the Lost History of the New Left	11	(10)
PART ONE REDISCOVERING POLITICS
Out of Apathy	21	(20)
On a Different Track	22	(2)
Michigan's Multiversity	24	(2)
Creeping Socialism	26	(5)
Act Now	31	(5)
From Protest to Radicalism	36	(5)
On the Road	41	(24)
Faith	42	(1)
Rebellion	43	(1)
Commitment	44	(6)
The Art of Political Discussion	50	(5)
Witness to a Revolution	55	(10)
PART TWO TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY
Politics and Vision	65	(13)
Democratic Analysis	66	(4)
If Not Now, When?	70	(3)
Political Stickball	73	(2)
Personal Ties	75	(3)
The Prophet of the Powerless	78	(14)
Outside the Whale	79	(4)
The Public in Eclipse	83	(3)
A New Moral Optic	86	(2)
Taking It Big	88	(4)
Building a House of Theory	92	(14)
Defining an Ideal	93	(2)
Doubts About Democracy	95	(3)
Theories of Action	98	(2)
A Re-assertion of the Personal	100	(2)
Promoting Political Controversy	102	(4)
Port Huron	106	(20)
Setting the Stage	108	(2)
Fathers and Sons	110	(7)
The Spirit of Face-to-Face Politics	117	(2)
Agenda for a Generation	119	(2)
A New Beginning	121	(5)
Beyond the Cold War	126	(15)
Invitation to an Inquest	127	(5)
Lockout and Appeal	132	(3)
Growing Up Red	135	(3)
Ignorance and Autonomy	138	(1)
An Uneasy Truce	139	(2)
Participatory Democracy	141	(16)
Speaking American	141	(2)
A Conflict of Interpretations	143	(5)
Beyond the Bewildered Herd	148	(2)
A Muffled Tocsin	150	(2)
The Uses of Ambiguity	152	(5)
PART THREE BUILDING A MOVEMENT
An Intellectual in Search of a Strategy	157	(27)
The Politics of Social Science	159	(2)
At Odds	161	(2)
Taking Stock	163	(5)
In Search of a Strategy	168	(2)
History as a Way of Learning	170	(3)
A New Era	173	(1)
A Living Document	174	(3)
Port Huron Revisited	177	(2)
Radical Pluralism	179	(2)
Blowin' in the Wind	181	(3)
An Organizer in Search of Authenticity	184	(34)
The Vita Activa	185	(3)
An Interracial Movement of the Poor	188	(3)
War on Poverty	191	(3)
Fragmentation	194	(3)
Chimes of Freedom	197	(4)
Experiments in Organizing	201	(3)
In Search of Authenticity	204	(4)
Reinventing the Neighborly Community	208	(3)
The Limits of Face-to-Face Politics	211	(7)
A Leader in Search of Legitimacy	218	(42)
In the Tradition of Debs	219	(1)
The Secret of Vietnam	220	(2)
Zen Koans and New Recruits	222	(4)
The Birth of the Anti-War Movement	226	(1)
Escalation	227	(4)
The First March	231	(3)
Revolutionary Symbolism	234	(2)
Media Images	236	(1)
Anti-Politics	237	(3)
Internal Democracy	240	(3)
Getting Attention	243	(1)
Chaos	244	(2)
Conflict	246	(2)
Red-Baiting	248	(3)
In Search of Legitimacy	251	(3)
Like a Rolling Stone	254	(1)
An Ending	255	(5)
A Moralist in Search of Power	260	(55)
A Wager	261	(1)
Let the People Decide	262	(2)
The Other Side	264	(2)
A Socialism of the Heart	266	(3)
Ambition Unbound	269	(4)
The Fire This Time	273	(4)
Fantasies of Revolution	277	(1)
We Are All Viet Cong	278	(3)
Rituals of Confrontation	281	(1)
In Search of Power	282	(4)
Shadow Ambassador	286	(3)
Facing Reality	289	(1)
Bringing the War Home	290	(2)
Tears of Rage	292	(3)
Democracy Is in the Streets	295	(3)
The Struggle Begins	298	(4)
The Whole World Is Watching	302	(2)
Incognito	304	(2)
Lost	306	(9)
Conclusion: A Collective Dream	315	(14)
Appendix The Port Huron Statement	329	(46)
A Note on Sources	375	(4)
Notes	379	(36)
Acknowledgments	415	(2)
Index	417