 | The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left''s Founding Manifesto The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. The essays in this volume--including some from original Port Huron contributors--probe the origins, content, and contemporary influence of the document that heralded the emergence of a vibrant New Left in American culture and politics. Richard Flacks is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Making History: The American Left and the American Mind and coauthor of Playing for Change: Music and Musicians in the Service of Social Movements. Nelson Lichtenstein is MacArthur Foundation Professor in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century and coeditor of The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
