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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

The Hard Work of Hope

A Memoir

Michael Ansara

ILR Press
an imprint of Cornell University Press
Ithaca and London

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