The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto

by Tom Hayden

The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. Initially drafted by Tom Hayden and debated over the course of three days in 1962 at a meeting of student leaders, the statement was issued by Students for a Democratic Society as their founding document. Its key idea, "participatory democracy," proved a watchword for Sixties radicalism that has also reemerged in popular protests from the Arab...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246926
• ISBN13: 9780812246926
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"