Tod Gitlin on the Recovery of American Ideals
A Lecture by Tod Gitlin
September 19, 2022
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Tod Gitlin on the Recovery of American Ideals
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Tod Gitlin on the Recovery of American Ideals
Summary
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, we hear from Tod Gitlin. Gitlin was president of the Students for a Democratic Society, and went on to become a sociologist, political activist, and journalist, teaching at Berkeley, NYU and Columbia. He wrote sixteen books, and spoke at the Institute in 2007 about his book, The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals. Gitlin died in February 2022.
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