THE
ANACHRONISTS
by
John
Gerassi
The
year was 1974. For those who had hoped to
change America by chanting “Make Love, Not
War,” for those who were beaten, jailed, framed
by police but still had faith in the system,
there seemed to be no hope left. The movement felt
defeated. Most of its stalwarts had given up. Most
but not all. Some wanted to make one more
desperate gesture. A political thriller
dealing with issues as politically relevant today
as they were back then, The Anachronists
posses the difficult question of what it really
means to make a revolution.
John
Gerassi, once an editor at Time magazine, then at
Newsweek, who obtained his PhD at LSE, is a long
time civil rights and anti-war militant. He is the
author or editor of ten books and scores of
articles and pamphlets published on both sides of
the Atlantic. He is currently Professor of
Political Science at the City University of New
York.
"I trust no one more than Gerassi to make me
understand America," Jean-Paul Sartre
Selected reviews of other
books by John Gerassi
The Great Fear in Latin America
"...reporting intelligently, clearly, and without
fear ..." William O'Dwyer, former mayor of NY City
in Saturday Review
Towards Revolution,
"No better short introduction to present-day
revolutionary movements exists. Its compilation is a
remarkable achievement... " John Saville in the New
Statesman
American Way of Crime
"...absolutely fascinating, breath-taking,
powerful, original, admirable," Simone de Beauvoir
Jean-Paul Sartre: Hated Conscience of His
Century
"...a dazzlingly original work," Philosophy
Prof Alan Lacy in the NY Times
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