Prairie Radical A Journey Through the Sixties

Prairie Radical A Journey Through the Sixties by Pardun, Robert. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780918828200.

Prairie Radical: A Journey Through the Sixties is the memoir of a young man whose life was radically changed when he joined the civil rights movement and spoke out against the war in Vietnam. It is a grass-roots inside history of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the largest student organization of the 1960s, as seen by one of its national officers who spent 1967-68 in the SDS national office, at the height of the antiwar movement It is also a history of the vibrant and innovative SDS chapter at the University of Texas in Austin, one of the Prairie Power strongholds, where the cultural rebellion and the political movement were united. Robert Pardun’s story of that tumultuous period is set within the context of what was happening in Vietnam and interwoven with what we now know was happening inside the government and the FBI. The book is illustrated with photos, posters, and FBI documents.