ADD THIS BOOK TO YOUR COURSEWORK!
PRAISE FROM PROFESSORS FOR
From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey From Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist, A Memoir by Bob Avakian
Revolution #043, April 16, 2006, posted at revcom.us
We received the following promotional material from Insight Press, the publisher of Bob Avakian's memoir, From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist.
We encourage readers to circulate this material among college professors, high-school and middle-school teachers, and administrators and suggest that they make this book part of their curriculum for the coming Fall. This material is downloadable as a PDF file from the web site of Insight Press—www.insight-press.com. Readers are also encouraged to circulate the Open Letter to Students and Youth by Professor Juan Gomez Quiñones. That letter appeared last week in Revolution (#42).
ADD THIS BOOK TO YOUR COURSEWORK!
PRAISE FROM PROFESSORS FOR
From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey From Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist, A Memoir by Bob Avakian
“Bob Avakian is a long distance runner in the freedom struggle against imperialism, racism and capitalism. His voice and witness are indispensable in our efforts to enhance the wretched of the earth. And his powerful story of commitment is timely.”
— Cornel West
Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, Princeton University
“A truly interesting account of Bob Avakian’s life, a humanizing portrait of someone who is often seen only as a hard-line revolutionary. I can understand why Bob Avakian has drawn so many ardent supporters. He speaks to people’s alienation from a warlike and capitalist society, and holds out the possibility for radical change.”
— Howard Zinn
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Boston University
“I thought of storytelling, and the way that Native Americans talk about the importance and positive power of storytelling. What I see is a very powerful updating of storytelling of our times… Bob Avakian travels a journey from a certain yesterday to a possible tomorrow in From Ike to Mao and Beyond. This diary of hopes and journal of lessons narrates how some youth went from troubling days to challenging actions to sharing dreams. Bob Avakian imagines and knows he is not the only one and he is ready to share dreams, his and ours. His shared experiences, with unflinching candor and generous warmth, are his respects for those of strong heart and clear mind, those ready to do the work of getting to the other side of history.”
— Dr. Juan Gomez Quiñones
Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
The importance of critical thinking is an important theme of Ike to Mao and Beyond. This approach influenced Bob Avakian’s development in the transformation he went through as an individual… As a professor, I and other professors want their students to be critical thinkers. This book can open people up to an approach of how to look at things with a critical eye.
— Robert Keith Collins, Ph.D.
Director, Homalusa: Center for African and Native American Research, Berkeley
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