Christopher Hitchens - Observer
“Tariq Ali has not lost the passion and vim which made him a symbol of the spirit of '68 ... has not seen fit to join forces with the terminally cynical, or set up a graven god that can be accused of failing ... Ali has spent much of his life documenting America as the arsenal of counter-revolution.”
Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
by Tariq AliView All Available Formats & Editions
One of the world's best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement. This new edition features the John Lennon/Yoko Ono interview "Power to the People," published for the first time in the US, and an important new introduction.See more details below
Overview
One of the world's best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement. This new edition features the John Lennon/Yoko Ono interview "Power to the People," published for the first time in the US, and an important new introduction.
Editorial Reviews
John Mortimer - Sunday Times
“We need to remember the sixties, and Tariq Ali's book is valuable and well presented evidence of the time ... as Ali points out the transition from revolutionary to arch-conservative is nothing new ... we may frequently have been misguided, but nothing is sadder than a generation without a cause.”Alexander Cockburn - Guardian
“Has me rapt on the hearthrug, peering into the embers of memory ... the Memoir proposes that the overriding themes were the confrontation with US imperialism ... the efforts of a generation to shake off the shackles of social-democracy and conduct war on capitalism à l'outrance.”Sydney Morning Herald
“Street Fighting Years is readable, informative and also inspirational ... the recollections of a person who has remained true to himself.”From the Publisher
“Tariq Ali has not lost the passion and vim which made him a symbol of the spirit of ‘68 ... has not seen fit to join forces with the terminally cynical, or set up a graven god that can be accused of failing ... Ali has spent much of his life documenting America as the arsenal of counter-revolution.”—Christopher Hitchens, Observer“We need to remember the sixties, and Tariq Ali’s book is valuable and well presented evidence of the time ... as Ali points out the transition from revolutionary to arch-conservative is nothing new ... we may frequently have been misguided, but nothing is sadder than a generation without a cause.”—John Mortimer, Sunday Times
“Has me rapt on the hearthrug, peering into the embers of memory ... the Memoir proposes that the overriding themes were the confrontation with US imperialism ... the efforts of a generation to shake off the shackles of social-democracy and conduct war on capitalism à l’outrance.”—Alexander Cockburn, Guardian
“Street Fighting Years is readable, informative and also inspirational ... the recollections of a person who has remained true to himself.”—Sydney Morning Herald
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9781844670291
- Publisher:
- Verso Books
- Publication date:
- 04/17/2005
- Edition description:
- New Edition
- Pages:
- 403
- Product dimensions:
- 6.06(w) x 7.96(h) x 1.30(d)
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