The Hard Work of Hope
A Memoir
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Product details:
- Publisher ILR Press
- Date of Publication 15 July 2025
- ISBN 9781501782145
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 53 Halftones, black & white 700
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Long description:
The Hard Work of Hope takes you into the heady days of 1960s and 1970s activism, chronicling the hopes and strategies of the young people who created the movements that rocked the country.
Michael Ansara was on the front lines. In this fascinating memoir, he traces an arc of discovery: from the hope and moral clarity of the Civil Rights Movement to the ten-year struggle to end the war in Vietnam, with its sit-ins, marches, confrontations, and antiwar riots.
Ansara takes the reader into the minds of the activists detailing their successes as well as their mistakes. The Hard Work of Hope shows how he learned to become a more effective organizer and build the Massachusetts Fair Share organization. The book explores issues that remain urgent. How does a movement build support when large parts of the country are opposed to its goals? How do you connect with people who disagree with you? How do you build organizations that unite across racial lines? How can we make progress on the unfinished business of the hard work of hope?
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Getting on the Bus
2. A New Left and the Start of the Student Movement
3. Creating Room for Dissent
4. The Not-So-Radical Personal Life of a Sixties Radical
5. Taking it to a New Level: 1966?67
6. Sitting In and Armies of the Night
7. 1968
8. Shutting Down Harvard
9. Strange Days: 1969?70
10. Days of Rage
11. A March in Lowell
12. Dorchester and The People First
13. How Does a War End?
14. To Be an Organizer
15. Massachusetts Fair Share
16. The End of My Long Sixties
Epilogue: From the Vantage of Fifty Years
