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Good. No dust jacket issued. xii, 276 pages. Index. Here is an intimate portrait of the Students for a Democratic Society, the country's most famous radical organization, the group that has brought about a rebirth of white radicalism in the United States. The first book to be published on the SDS, it presents a picture of escalating radical consciousness in America, with the organization which once labored to work within the system now sworn to attack the system to its very foundations. Alan Adelson works in both film and print. His film and television credits include: 1989, Lodz Ghetto (PBS, Channel Four, nine other countries), which was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1989, won the International Film Critics Prize in 1989 and played at Sundance, Berlin and nine international film festivals; 2006, Two Villages in Kosovo (ARTE, RTE); 2012, In Bed With Ulysses; 2020, The People vs. Agent Orange, 2020, Agent Orange: la derniere bataille (ARTE), winner of the Jury Award at the 2020 Eugene Environmental Film Festival and of the Erik Barnouw Award in 2020. In the print realm, Adelson made worldwide headlines with his investigative articles in Esquire and The Wall Street Journal revealing the disappearance of enriched plutonium from an American nuclear reprocessing plant. This is the author's first book [stated]. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left. Disdaining permanent leaders, hierarchical relationships and parliamentary procedure, the founders conceived of the organization as a broad exercise in "participatory democracy". From its launch in 1960 it grew rapidly in the course of the tumultuous decade with over 300 campus chapters and 30, 000 supporters recorded nationwide by its last national convention in 1969. The organization splintered at that convention amidst rivalry between factions seeking to impose national leadership and direction, and disputing "revolutionary" positions on, among other issues, the Vietnam War and Black Power. SDS developed from the youth branch of a socialist educational organization known as the League for Industrial Democracy (LID). LID itself descended from an older student organization, the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, founded in 1905 by Upton Sinclair, Walter Lippmann, Clarence Darrow, and Jack London. Early in 1960, to broaden the scope for recruitment beyond labor issues, the Student League for Industrial Democracy was reconstituted as SDS. They held their first meeting in 1960 on the University of Michigan campus at Ann Arbor, where Alan Haber was elected president. The SDS manifesto, known as the Port Huron Statement, was adopted at the organization's first convention in June 1962, based on an earlier draft by staff member Tom Hayden. Under Walter Reuther's leadership, the UAW paid for a range of expenses for the 1962 convention, including use of the UAW summer retreat in Port Huron. The Port Huron Statement decried what it described as "disturbing paradoxes": that the world's "wealthiest and strongest country" should "tolerate anarchy as a major principle of international conduct"; that it should allow "the declaration 'all men are created equal...'" to ring "hollow before the facts of Negro life"; that, even as technology creates "new forms of social organization", it should continue to impose "meaningless work and idleness"; and with two-thirds of mankind undernourished that its "upper classes" should "revel amidst superfluous abundance". In searching for "the spark and engine of change" the authors disclaimed any "formulas" or "closed theories." Instead, "matured" by "the horrors of a century" in which "to be idealistic is to be considered apocalyptic", Students for a Democratic Society would seek a "new left...committed to deliberativeness, honesty [and] reflection."