Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From protest to power : The electoral new Left and the long sixties
  • The liberation of Berkeley
  • A freak for sheriff
  • Kent State...and after
  • Madison : two wars at home
  • The people's party
  • Passing through : human rights in Ann Arbor
  • Digging in : human rights in Ypsilanti
  • Urbana : power on the prairie
  • Marx in Motown
  • Democratic Socialists of America
  • Boston : a socialist on Beacon Hill
  • Santa Cruz : surf city Socialists
  • Vermont exceptionalism
  • Conclusion: The electoral new Left and local Left populism.