{"product_id":"a-hard-rain-fell-sds-and-why-it-failed-paperback","title":"A Hard Rain Fell: Sds and Why It Failed - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Barber\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history--a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased to exist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e SDS's development and its dissolution grew directly out of the organization's relations with the black freedom movement, the movement against the Vietnam War, and the newly emerging struggle for women's liberation. For a moment, young white people could comprehend their world in new and revolutionary ways. But New Leftists did not respond as a tabula rasa. On the contrary, these young people's consciousnesses, their culture, their identities had arisen out of a history which, for hundreds of years, had privileged white over black, men over women, and America over the rest of the world. Such a history could not help but distort the vision and practice of these activists, good intentions notwithstanding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed\u003c\/i\u003e traces these activists in their relation to other movements and demonstrates that the New Left's dissolution flowed directly from SDS's failure to break with traditional American notions of race, sex, and empire.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the Students for a Democratic Society in their relation to other movements and demonstrates that the New Left's dissolution flowed directly from SDS's failure to break with traditional American notions of race, sex, and empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Barber \u003c\/b\u003eis assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee at Martin. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eJournal of Social History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLeft History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRace Traitor\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759470280992,"sku":"9781604738551","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5ae0392a8ee5d842a68a35fee5ef4cdc.webp?v=1780153739","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-hard-rain-fell-sds-and-why-it-failed-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}