John Maher writes, "My memoir, Learning from the Sixties, traces my progress from a middle class background in Houston, Texas, to becoming a leader of the New Left. Along the way I amassed a 2,000-page FBI file and a place on the FBI's list of the top forty leaders of 'the opposition.' Harvard College played a big role in my growing up. For the Harvard reader there are portraits of professors and classmates, young love and club life.

I try to give an honest and clear-eyed perspective on what truly happened at many of the events marking that decade of tumult­- Vietnam Summer, the streets of Chicago after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the Harvard Strike, and beyond. Later, based on those formative organizing experiences, I helped build Neighbor to Neighbor, a working-class-led organization that continues to have an impact on Massachusettsıs politics. Noam Chomsky, Congressman Jim McGovern, and Janet Moses (formerly of SNCC) have kind things to say about the work. Check it out at learningfromthesixties.com. I hope you find it fun and worthwhile."

December 2011