Jack Foley, currently the most highly-respected book reviewer on the
West Coast, who did the great review of my book in the San Francisco
Chronicle, just phoned to tell me that I'm one of three winners of the
annual award given by PEN Oakland for exercise of (in my case, defense
of) freedom of speech. The others are Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of
TIKKUN, which will be running a review (I've known Lerner since we were
both in the Free Speech Movement), and Daniel Hernandez, current editor
of the Daily Californian, student paper at UC Berkeley. Kind of Old Home
Week, because the Daily Cal actually gave full pages for five
consecutive days to serializing an essay of mine in 1967. I do not
believe that any professor on the university's faculty, any student or
outsider has ever been paid a similar honor.
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Do you teach in the social sciences? Consider my SAYING NO TO POWER
(Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1999), for course use. It was written as a
social history of
the U.S. for the past three-quarters of a century through the eyes of a
participant
observer in most progressive social movements (I'm 83), and of the USSR
from the
standpoint of a Sovietologist (five earlier books) knowing that country
longer than any
other in the profession. Therefore it is also a history of the Cold War.
Positive reviews
in The Black Scholar, American Studies in Scandinavia, San Francisco
Chronicle,
forthcoming in Tikkun, etc. CHAPTERS MAY BE READ AT www.BillMandel.net
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