Margot Adler is the New York bureau chief for National Public Radio and author of Drawing Down the Moon- Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
With the curiosity of a journalist, the heart of a revolutionary,
and the soul of an American woman, Margot Adler has written a
timeless and timely account of her journey through the
sixties.-Gloria Steinem
The renowned NPR correspondent offers a fresh perspective of the
sixties, in a candid memoir of civil-rights work, the Free Speech
Movement, and her correspondence with a young American soldier in
Vietnam.
"Margot Adler has written an unsentimental version of The Way We
Were in the 1960s, and it reminds one of just how dangerous and
painful honesty can be. Disarming, but still dangerous. I think all
of us who were active in those crowded years have a different
version of the sixties, but mine, like Adler's, was not about sex,
drugs or rock 'n' roll; it was about the civil-rights movement, the
antiwar movement, and a genuine search for a better way to live
together."-Molly Ivins
"In Heretic's Heart, Margot Adler has truly brought the sixties to
life again, with all the hopes, optimism and uncertainty of the
time tempered by the wisdom of thirty years' further life
experience. . . . It made me take a long look at my own history and
choices-and for those who are too young to remember the sixties, it
will tell you a truth about the times that you won't find in
history books. I loved the book!"-Starhawk
"It's an honest and human attempt to return memory to us. It should
be honored for restoring history and pointing the way."-Tom
Engelhardt, Philadelphia Inquirer,/i>
"Adler's generous, reflective memoir is enriched by a personal
humility and an intellectual appreciation for social
context."-Valerie Miner, Chicago Tribune
"[A] modest yet unsparing memoir . . . about how a wondering,
doubting, searching temperament found safe passage through a
minefield of absolutes and extremes."-Annie Gottlieb, The
Nation
"The only thing more impressive than Margot Adler's honesty is the
overflowing archive she draws on to tell her story. . . . We should
be grateful for this literary packrat who tells it as it really
was."-Kimberly B. Marlowe, Seattle Times
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.
With the curiosity of a journalist, the heart of a revolutionary,
and the soul of an American woman, Margot Adler has written a
timeless and timely account of her journey through the
sixties.-Gloria Steinem
The renowned NPR correspondent offers a fresh perspective of the
sixties, in a candid memoir of civil-rights work, the Free Speech
Movement, and her correspondence with a young American soldier in
Vietnam.
"Margot Adler has written an unsentimental version of The Way We
Were in the 1960s, and it reminds one of just how dangerous and
painful honesty can be. Disarming, but still dangerous. I think all
of us who were active in those crowded years have a different
version of the sixties, but mine, like Adler's, was not about sex,
drugs or rock 'n' roll; it was about the civil-rights movement, the
antiwar movement, and a genuine search for a better way to live
together."-Molly Ivins
"In Heretic's Heart, Margot Adler has truly brought the
sixties to life again, with all the hopes, optimism and uncertainty
of the time tempered by the wisdom of thirty years' further life
experience. . . . It made me take a long look at my own history and
choices-and for those who are too young to remember the sixties, it
will tell you a truth about the times that you won't find in
history books. I loved the book!"-Starhawk
"It's an honest and human attempt to return memory to us. It should
be honored for restoring history and pointing the way."-Tom
Engelhardt, Philadelphia Inquirer,/i>
"Adler's generous, reflective memoir is enriched by a personal
humility and an intellectual appreciation for social
context."-Valerie Miner, Chicago Tribune
"[A] modest yet unsparing memoir . . . about how a wondering,
doubting, searching temperament found safe passage through a
minefield of absolutes and extremes."-Annie Gottlieb, The
Nation
"The only thing more impressive than Margot Adler's honesty is the
overflowing archive she draws on to tell her story. . . . We should
be grateful for this literary packrat who tells it as it really
was."-Kimberly B. Marlowe, Seattle Times
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