Reunion: A Memoir
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In Reunion, Tom Hayden traces the arc of a life lived at the turbulent heart of American dissent — from his working-class Michigan upbringing to his emergence as a founding voice of Students for a Democratic Society, whose Port Huron Statement gave a generation of idealists their political grammar. With candor and depth, Hayden recounts his years organizing in the segregated South, his journey to war-torn Vietnam, and the infamous chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where he stood trial as one of the Chicago Seven. But Reunion is more than a chronicle of protest; it is a searching meditation on the costs and contradictions of radical commitment — on love, loss, and the difficult passage from movement politics to the long work of governing. Writing with the reflective wisdom of someone who has been both celebrated and vilified, Hayden asks what endures when the marching stops and what it truly means to change a country from within.
Author: Tom Hayden
Format: Hardback, 560 pages, 156mm x 234mm, 1014 g
Published: 1989, Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: Business
In Reunion, Tom Hayden traces the arc of a life lived at the turbulent heart of American dissent — from his working-class Michigan upbringing to his emergence as a founding voice of Students for a Democratic Society, whose Port Huron Statement gave a generation of idealists their political grammar. With candor and depth, Hayden recounts his years organizing in the segregated South, his journey to war-torn Vietnam, and the infamous chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where he stood trial as one of the Chicago Seven. But Reunion is more than a chronicle of protest; it is a searching meditation on the costs and contradictions of radical commitment — on love, loss, and the difficult passage from movement politics to the long work of governing. Writing with the reflective wisdom of someone who has been both celebrated and vilified, Hayden asks what endures when the marching stops and what it truly means to change a country from within.