Hope in a Long Winter

Hope in a Long Winter

Eric Leif Davin

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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2023
Materia
Biografía: general
ISBN:
9781312738379
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Eric Leif Davin was a draft resister during the Vietnam War. Drafted for the war, he refused to be drafted. This is his account of his life in the theater at Harvard, working in the Free School Movement, running for School Committee in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and surviving personally and politically in the swirling chaos of that era.

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