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table of contents
  1. List of Illustrations
  2. “Hard Work”
  3. Author’s Note
  4. Preface
  5. 1. Getting on the Bus
  6. 2. A New Left and the Start of the Student Movement
  7. 3. Creating Room for Dissent
  8. 4. The Not-So-Radical Personal Life of a Sixties Radical
  9. 5. Taking it to a New Level: 1966–67
  10. 6. Sitting In and Armies of the Night
  11. 7. 1968
  12. 8. Shutting Down Harvard
  13. 9. Strange Days: 1969–70
  14. 10. Days of Rage
  15. 11. A March in Lowell
  16. 12. Dorchester and The People First
  17. 13. How Does a War End?
  18. 14. To Be an Organizer
  19. 15. Massachusetts Fair Share
  20. 16. The End of My Long Sixties
  21. Epilogue: From the Vantage of Fifty Years
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Notes
  24. Selected Bibliography
  25. Index

Copyright © 2025 by Michael Ansara

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2025 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Ansara, Michael, 1947– author.

Title: The hard work of hope : a memoir / Michael Ansara.

Description: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2025. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2024049169 (print) | LCCN 2024049170 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501782145 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501782152 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501782169 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Ansara, Michael, 1947– | Political activists—United States— History—20th century. | Protest movements—United States—History— 20th century. | Community organization—United States—History— 20th century. | Activism—United States—History—20th century.

Classification: LCC HN65 .A6947 2025 (print) | LCC HN65 (ebook) | DDC 303.48/40973—dc23/eng/20250117

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024049169

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024049170

Cover photograph: Marching on MIT’s iLabs. Photo by Timothy Carlson.

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Copyright © 2025 by Michael Ansara, All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.
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