New in paperback with a new preface by the author

REVOLUTION IN THE AIR
Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
MAX ELBAUM

"If you still believe sixties radicalism was nothing more than youthful middle-class confusion or parochial identity politics, then open these pages and dig." -Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Revolution in the Air is a major interpretive history that transforms our understanding of 1960s radicalism, detailing the work of activists who turned to Third World-oriented versions of Marxism and for a decade anchored the most dynamic and racially integrated trend on the US Left. Enthusiastically reviewed in the Los Angeles Times ("required reading for those interested in the modern history of social movements") and the Village Voice, ("an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship"), Revolution in the Air is now available in a paperback edition, which includes a new preface by the author discussing the lessons of the 1960s for a post-9/11 world, and confronts George W. Bush's open-ended "war on terror."

Max Elbaum was a member of Students for a Democratic Society in the 1960s, and a leader of one of the main New Communist Movement organizations in the 70s and 80s. His writings have appeared in the Nation, Radical History Review and the Encyclopedia of the American Left.

Publication: October 13 New in Paperback 1 84467 563 7 $23/$30CAN