Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together
209Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780739127490 |
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Publisher: | Lexington Books |
Publication date: | 02/16/2009 |
Pages: | 209 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
ForewordAcknowledgments
Introduction
Beginnings
Son of Middletown
When I Was Little
Friends
A Premature New Leftist
Music and Dance and Discovering Childhood
Story Street
Community
Macedonia
After Macedonia
Starfish
The Sixties
Cooper Square
We Shall Overcome
A Trip to Hanoi
Draft Counseling
War Crimes and the End of the Sixties
Accompaniment
The Idea of "Accompaniment"
Doing Oral History Together
We Become Lawyers
Our Union Makes Us Strong
Nicaragua
Palestine
The Worst of the Worst
Mama Bear
Lucasville
Mr. X
The Death Penalty and the Prison System
Afterwords
Covering Little Seeds
A Letter to Martha
Retrospectives
Happy
What People are Saying About This
In their lifelong commitment to each other and to their common cause, Alice and Staughton Lynd provide an inspiring vision of what 'the personal is the political' can really mean.
In this moving double memoir, Alice and Staughton Lynd show us a way to live with love and integrity in a world of violence and inequality. They take the reader down unexpected roads, making difficult choices that often require harsh sacrifice. Together they find beauty where others might find only despair. Their lives practicing 'accompaniment' inspire hope that a better world is possible and show us that the journey is worth the pain. Read this remarkable story and your spirit will be enriched.
Staughton and Alice Lynd forged an extraordinary partnershiop over half a century, which carried them from Harvard and Radcliffe to the deep South, from there to union organizing in the Midwest, and then to experiences in Latin America and the Middle East. Through that winding journey, they were rock-like in their commitment to peace and social justice, and steadfast in their bond to one another. They remain a model of two people unbreakably joined together by a life-long commitment to build a better, kindlier world. This is a memoir to inspire the next generation.
Without radicals like the Lynds, there might have been no American Revolution, no Abolition, no Suffrage, no New Deal, no environmental laws and so on.... Through all the storms, Staughton and Alice have represented the basic blend of moral force, critical inquiry and trust in the evidence of things unseen that have helped rank-and-file people become the driving force wherever great social reforms were achieved.