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Article: Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement.
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- Monthly Review
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- January 1, 1998
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Though very different from one another, together Staughton Lynd's latest two books make a remarkable statement about the ideas and activities of one of the major figures of the New Left. Living Inside Our Hope is autobiographical in two ways. It summarizes the major events of Lynd's life and it presents the development of his ideas in disconnected chapters. He credits his parents, Robert and Helen Lynd, the authors of the two Middletown books, with significant influence on his development as a leftist. Not a little of that influence is reflected in his becoming a believing, practicing Quaker - and in his profound belief in nonviolence.
Staughton Lynd stands out as ...