E-raamat: Radicals in the Heartland: The 1960s Student Protest Movement at the University of Illinois

"Metz's volume is a deeply researched account that compels us to appreciate how free speech, racial issues, draft resistance, and antiwar activism were fought over on the U of I's flagship campus in Central Illinois." --H-Net Reviews "Metz has crafted a compelling and intriguing story and has succeeded in writing the activism of students at Urbana-Champaign into the history of the 1960s. " --Social History "Thoughtful, provocative, and powerful, filled with both painful memories and humorous anecdotes, Metz's book about the upheaval of one college campus during the radical sixties is a real work of history."--Roger Simon "Michael V. Metz gives an insightful, well-documented analysis of events that shaped each year of the 1960s at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana campus." --Illinois Times "Michael Metz has contributed a valuable addition to our understanding of the student movement in the Midwest with his study of the University of Illinois during the 1960s. Solidly researched and gracefully presented, this will undoubtedly earn a much deserved place on reading lists and reference material for years to come."--Mary Ann Wynkoop, author of Dissent in the Heartland: The Sixties at Indiana University "Michael Metz, a student-activist during the turbulent free speech and anti-war movements at the University of Illinois during the 1960s, has written a compelling and well-researched account of that era, based on interviews with many other activists and additional extensive research in contemporary news accounts and archival material."-Robert Justin Goldstein, author of Political Repression in Modern America: From 1870 to 1976