Heretic's Heart: A Journey through Spirit and Revolution
Adler (Drawing Down the Moon, LJ 11/1/79), the New York bureau chief for National Public Radio, draws on her journals, correspondence with family and friends, and over 200 pages of letters she exchanged with a Vietnam soldier to chronicle her life in the Sixties. She discusses being the granddaughter of psychiatrist Alfred Adler, the only child of Communist sympathizers, a student activist at Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement and her resulting arrest, her summer of registering black voters in Mississippi, her firsthand experience of the Socialist revolution in Cuba, her experimentations with sex, and her antiwar activism. Adler writes powerfully and with a sharp memory for detail. She concludes that social activism brought real and lasting change. Many will recall Theodore Roszak's The Making of Counter Culture as they read Adler; still others might reject her philosophies and be alarmed by her candor. Recommended for public and academic libraries.?Susan Dearstyne, Hudson Valley Community Coll., Troy, N.Y.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.