Freedom's orator : Mario Savio and the radical legacy of the 1960s /

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Author / Creator:	Cohen, Robert, 1955 May 21- author.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2009 ©2009
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 512 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Savio, Mario. Savio, Mario. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.) -- History. University of California, Berkeley -- Students -- Biography. Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.) University of California, Berkeley. Political activists -- California -- Biography. Student movements -- California -- Berkeley -- History. College students -- Political activity -- California -- Berkeley -- History. College students -- Political activity. Political activists. Student movements. Students. California. California -- Berkeley. Electronic books. Biographies. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11227655

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ISBN:	9780199720354 0199720355 9780195182934 0195182936 9780199392902 0199392900 1282731084 9781282731080 9786612731082 6612731087
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-488) and index. English. Print version record
Summary:	"Here is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did more than anyone to bring daring forms of non-violent protest from the civil rights movement to the struggle for free speech and academic freedom on American campuses. Drawing upon previously unavailable Savio papers, as well as oral histories from friends and fellow movement leaders, Freedom's Orator illuminates Mario's egalitarian leadership style, his remarkable eloquence, and the many ways he embodied the youthful idealism of the 1960s. The book also narrates, for the first time, his second phase of activism against "Reaganite Imperialism" in Central America and the corporatization of higher education. Including a generous selection of Savio's speeches, Freedom's Orator speaks with special relevance to a new generation of activists and to all who cherish the '60s and democratic ideals for which Savio fought so selflessly."--Publisher's description.
Other form:	Print version: Cohen, Robert, 1955 May 21- Freedom's orator. Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780195182934
Standard no.:	9786612731082

Table of Contents:

The education of an American radical. Child of war ; The making of a civil rights activist ; Freedom summer
Avatar of student protest : leading the free speech movement. From polite protest to the first sit-in ; The police car blockade ; Consolidating the movement and negotiating for free speech ; "We almost lost" : the FSM in crisis ; Speaking out and sitting in ; "Free speech at last"
After the revolution : a voice lost and found. Descending from leadership ; Battling back ; Dying in the saddle
In his own words : a selection of Mario Savio's speeches and writing. Valedictory ; Bodies upon the gears ; An end to history ; Questioning the Vietnam War ; Beyond the Cold War ; Resisting Reaganism and war in Central America ; The second generation ; Building a compassionate community ; Their values and ours ; A moment to move against class-ridden barbarism ; California at the crossroads : social strife or social unity? ; In defense of affirmative action : the case against Proposition 209.

Freedom's orator : Mario Savio and the radical legacy of the 1960s /

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