Long March, Short Spring

Long March, Short Spring; The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Second printing [stated]. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.25 inches. 189, [3] pages. A Dhort bibliography. Contents include: The Year of the Student; What the Students Really Want; Germany: The Long March; Revolt: Italiam Sytle; France: The Short Springt; EnglandL The Silent Spring; Columbia: Up Against the Ivy Wal; and Graduation. Barbara Ehrenreich (née Alexander; August 26, 1941 - September 1, 2022) was an American author and political activist. During the 1980s and early 1990s, she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She was a widely read and award-winning columnist and essayist and the author of 21 books. Ehrenreich was best known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a memoir of her three-month experiment surviving on a series of minimum wage jobs. She was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. After completing her doctorate, Ehrenreich did not pursue a career in science. Instead, she worked first as an analyst with the Bureau of the Budget in New York City and with the Health Policy Advisory Center, and later as an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. Throughout her career, Ehrenreich worked as a freelance writer. She is arguably best known for her non-fiction reportage, book reviews and social commentary. In 2005, The New Yorker called her "a veteran muckraker". She met her first husband, John Ehrenreich, during an anti-war activism campaign in New York City, and they married in 1966. They co-wrote several books about health policy and labor issues before divorcing. John Ehrenreich (born February 20, 1943) is an American author, academic, and clinical psychologist who has published books on health policy, humanitarian policy, US history and US social policy. He is known for his development (with his then-wife, Barbara Ehrenreich) of the idea of the "medical-industrial complex" and the concept of the "professional-managerial class". Together, John and Barbara Ehrenreich played a leading role in the anti-Vietnam war movement in New York and published several early books and articles, including Long March, Short Spring: The Student Uprising at Home and Abroad (1969). Derived from a Kirkus review: Up against the wall, reader! Two American radicals, graduate students at New York's Rockefeller University, here report their findings on the 1968 student revolts in Germany, France, Italy, England, and the United States. Drawing from interviews with participants, they analyze in separate chapters the rise of each student movements and its future prospects, concluding with an essay developing a general theory of student activism. The chapters on the German and Italian uprisings contain a good deal of fresh and interesting historical material. The authors do stand off, as experienced organizers, to question the half-hearted efforts of European students to reach the workers. And their own idealism and commitment are unmistakable. Briskly written, this is a good survey for those on either side of the barricades. Artikel-Nr. 85244

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