What happens to a dream deferred?
(Langston Hughes)
Todd Gitlin is one the most astute analysts of progressive politics in America. He is the author of a dozen books exploring the rise and fall of radical movements, including the New Left and Occupy. His writing is rooted in a lifetime of activism: between 1963-64, Gitlin was president of the Students for a Democratic Society, and he helped organise the first nationwide march against the Vietnam war. He has written at length on the role of the mass media, and is professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University in New York City.
