How Long to Read Learning from the Sixties

How Long Does it Take to Read Learning from the Sixties?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Learning from the Sixties by John Maher

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This memoir by a leading New Left organizer poses tough questions, provides some answers born from front-line experience, and challenges readers to do what it takes to save our country. Noam Chomsky praises the book for its "very valuable insights, from the perspective of a leading and effective participant, into the highly significant popular movements of the past half century, their successes and failures, the lessons to be learned, the prospects for the future." Working families in America face foreclosures and joblessness unparalleled since the Great Depression. This crisis has been compounded by a feeble response from the government and the rise of an angry right. How did this happen? How should progressives respond? What lessons might the past hold? Learning from the Sixties offers some insightful and hard-won answers. John Maher came of age in the 1960s and has been in the thick of things ever since: as an organizer, a factory worker, a schoolteacher, and an educator. In Learning from the Sixties, he traces his progress from a privileged background in Houston, Texas, to volunteering as an anti-war activist to becoming a leader of the New Left. Along the way he amassed a 2,000-page FBI file and a place on the FBI's list of the top forty leaders of "the opposition." Maher gives us an honest and clear-eyed perspective on what truly happened at many of the events that marked that decade of tumult--from Vietnam Summer to the streets of Chicago after the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., to the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and beyond. Later, based on those formative organizing experiences, Maher helped build Neighbor to Neighbor, a working-class-led organization that continues to have a major impact on Massachusetts politics. Says Jim McGovern, U.S. congressman from Worcester, Massachusetts, "It is a great example of what needs to be done around the country, now more than ever."

How long is Learning from the Sixties?

Learning from the Sixties by John Maher is 278 pages long, and a total of 71,724 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Learning from the Sixties Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read Learning from the Sixties aloud.

What Reading Level is Learning from the Sixties?

Learning from the Sixties is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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