Listen, Yankee!(1st Edition) Why Cuba Matters by TomHayden, Ricardo Alarcon Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60980-596-8, ISBN: 1-60980-596-8
"Based on unprecedented access to both Cuban and American officials, a book that offers fresh insight into one of history's most enigmatic relationships between nation-states--from one of America's best-known voices of political and social activism. "Listen, Yankee!" offers an account of Cuban politics from Tom Hayden's unique position as an observer of Cuba and as a US revolutionary student leader whose efforts to mobilize political cha ..."
The Port Huron Statement(5th Edition) The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution by TomHayden Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Publicaffairs ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-741-7, ISBN: 1-56025-741-5
"We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life; that society be organized to encourage independence in men and provide the media for their common participation . . ." —from the PORT HURON STATEMENT Four key periods in American history have most influenced what America is like today: ..."
Street Wars(1st Edition) Gangs and the Future of Violence by TomHayden, Miki G. Hayden Hardcover, 430 Pages, Published 2004 by The New Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-876-4, ISBN: 1-56584-876-4
"A gripping and honest account of the culture of gangs, "Street Wars" is essential reading for anyone concerned about cities, violence, and the future of urban youth. Though never officially acknowledged, over 25,000 young people have died in America's gang wars since 1980. In cities across America, members of the Crips, Bloods, Mara Salvatrucha, 18th Street, Latin Kings, Blackstone Rangers, and Gangster Disciples are like traumatized wa ..."
Conspiracy in the Streets(1st Edition) The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight by Jon Wiener, Jules Feiffer, TomHayden Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2006 by The New Press Abridged ISBN-13: 978-1-56584-833-7, ISBN: 1-56584-833-0
"On the stand with yippies, black panthers, and political activists at the conspiracy trial that defined the youth rebellion of the 1960s."Conspiracy? Hell, we couldn't agree on lunch."Abbie HoffmanMichael Moore mocks George Bush and Al Franken ridicules Rush Limbaugh, but the mixing of play and politics today is polite and respectful compared to the carnival of contempt known as the Chicago Eight trial.Opening at the end of 1969, the tr ..."
"The explosive protests and police riots outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the ensuing conspiracy trial gave voice to the tumultuous politics of the time. Frank Condon and Ron Sossi have crafted a dramatically gripping playscript from a careful selection of actual court transcripts, accompanied here by an introduction and historical reflections written by Tom Hayden, one of the original defendants. This potent book capt ..."
Long Sixties(1st Edition) From 1960 to Barack Obama by TomHayden Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-59451-740-2, ISBN: 1-59451-740-1
"In this unique and compelling book Tom Hayden argues that Barack Obama would not have been able to mount a successful presidential campaign without the movements of the 1960s. The Long Sixties shows that movements throughout history triumph over Machiavellians, gaining social reforms while leaving both revolutionaries and reactionaries frustrated. Hayden argues that the 1960s left a critical imprint on America, from civil rights laws to ..."
The Zapatista Reader(1st Edition) (Nation Books) by TomHayden Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2002 by Nation Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-335-8, ISBN: 1-56025-335-5
"Presents essays interviews articles and correspondence centering on theevolutionary conflict in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas The electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual political and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year s Day 1994 has provided inspiration for activists all over the world A remarkable synergy has also developed between leading wri ..."
The Lost Gospel of the Earth(Updated) A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit and Politics: Revised and by TomHayden Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2006 by Ig Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-9771972-4-8, ISBN: 0-9771972-4-7
"More timely and necessary than ever in the wake of recent calamities like Hurricane Katrina and the Republican war against the environment, The Lost Gospel of the Earth is legendary activist Tom Hayden’s eco-spiritual call for revamping traditional religious doctrine to reflect a greater environmental consciousness, which he believes is the only way to save the planet from catastrophe. Drawing upon the historical seeds of the major worl ..."
Irish on the Inside(Updated) In Search of the Soul of Irish America by TomHayden Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-477-9, ISBN: 1-85984-477-4
"Tom Hayden explores the losses wrought by Irish American conformism, in his own life and beyond. When David Trimble claimed recently that Irish republicans needed house-training, I felt the echo of my master's voice down through the ages, that of the Vikings, the British, and the WASPs, and knew why I am Irish. Now and then someone has to defecate on the master's rug. Tom Hayden first realized he was 'Irish on the inside' when he hear ..."
Irish on the Inside(2nd Edition) In Search of the Soul of Irish America by TomHayden Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2001 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-616-2, ISBN: 1-85984-616-5
"Tom Hayden first realized he was ‘Irish on the inside’ when he heard civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ in 1969. Though his great-grandparents had been forced to emigrate to the US in the 1850s, Hayden’s parents erased his Irish heritage in the quest for respectability.In this passionate book he explores the losses wrought by such conformism. Assimilation, he argues, has led to high rates of schizophre ..."
Unfinished Agenda Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power by Junius Williams, TomHayden Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2014 by North Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-58394-722-7, ISBN: 1-58394-722-1
""Unfinished Agenda" offers an inside look at the Black Power Movement that emerged during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. A political memoir that teaches grass-roots politics and inspires organizing for real change in the Age of Obama, this book will appeal to readers of black history, Occupy Wall Street organizers, and armchair political advocates. Based on notes, interviews, and articles from the 1950s to present day, Juniu ..."
"Created by Students for a Democratic Society in a small Michigan town in 1962, the Port Huron Statement has been called "the most ambitious, the most specific, and the most eloquent manifesto in the history of the American Left." Now, fifty years after its drafting, principal architect Tom Hayden and the other SDS contributors revisit this seminal document and provide an original and comprehensive analysis of its historical impact andit ..."
"'Dempsey writes with knowledge, charm and intelligence; one could have no better guide. His "bird walk" through the pages is not only an education for anyone remotely interested in birds but is marvellously entertaining too. I would urge readers to make for the nearest bookshop and take a look at it. Those who have never put binoculars to their eyes except to watch horse races will henceforth turn their lenses to the skies.' Damien Enri ..."
Ending the War in Iraq(1st Edition) by TomHayden Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2007 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-45-3, ISBN: 1-933354-45-3
"As a leading antiwar figure in the 1960s, Tom Hayden wrote extensively on Vietnam and was one of the small number of Americans engaged in dialogue with both sides during the Paris peace talks. As an Irish American, he spent ten years supporting and writing about the peace process leading up to the Good Friday Agreement. As a California legislator for eighteen years, he devoted himself to writing about and trying to prevent inner-city vi ..."
Street Wars(Reprint) Gangs And the Future of Violence by TomHayden Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2006 by New Press, The ISBN-13: 978-1-59558-030-6, ISBN: 1-59558-030-1
"The renowned activist's impassioned look at gangs and youth violence in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.A gripping and honest account of the culture of gangs, Street Wars is essential reading for anyone concerned about cities, violence, and the future of urban youth. Though never officially acknowledged, over 25,000 young people have died in America's gang wars since 1980. In cities across America, members of the Crips, Bloods, Mara ..."
"Not long after co-authoring The Port Huron Statement, the charter document of sixties activism, Tom Hayden completed, at the University of Michigan, an intellectual biography of eminent scholar C. Wright Mills. It is published here for the first time, along with newly written essays by Hayden and by prominent social theorists who are experts on Mills and his ongoing influence today. Hayden cogently traces Mills' scholarship and his pro ..."
"On January 30, 1972, the Parachute Regiment of the British Army opened fire on a peaceful civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing thirteen. Twenty-six years later, this new anthology contains eight accounts that look at Bloody Sunday from different perspectives. Through analysis, interviews, extensive images, and personal accounts, Hidden Truths examines the personal and political implications generated by this event and ..."
"From Tom Hayden - a 1960s radical and longtime progressive California legislator - here is an impassioned plea for reclaiming our spiritual bond with the earth. Hayden argues that the basis of our present environmental crisis was laid long ago, when tribal systems of belief were replaced by formal religions. Nature-based mysticism gave way to human-centered theologies that desanctified the earth and taught people to see themselves as do ..."
Reunion(1st Edition) A Memoir by TomHayden Paperback, 541 Pages, Published 1989 by Crowell-Collier Pr (Macmi) ISBN-13: 978-0-02-033105-6, ISBN: 0-02-033105-3