Family background, childhood in Illinois; early experience with civil rights movement; early involvement with counter-culture; University of Illinois, undergraduate years; marriage to Mari Jo Buhle; membership in Socialist Labor Party; old and new lefts; University of Connecticut; Students for a Democratic Society membership; impact of literature on ideas; "The Guardian"; "Radical America": foundin g and development, ideology, editorial board problems; University of Wisconsin at Madison, graduate years: student organization, Dow demonstration, faculty positions on student movements, teaching assistants' strike; violent demonstrations; disintegration of Students for a Democratic Society; rise of Maoism and Marxism-Leninism; roles of particular religious groups in movements; personal expectations of future radical movements
Historians; Students; Civil rights--United States; Student movements; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements; Radicalism; Underground press publications; Social history--1960-1970; Buhle, Paul, 1944-; Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.); University of Wisconsin
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1985
Physical Description
208 pages
Note (Biographical)
Historian
Note
Interviewed by Bret Eynon and Ronald J. Grele on January 24, 1984, and on February 6, 1985