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| David Dellinger | Category: Archives | Topic: Activism | Books about Activism |  Print  E-Mail
This page has been viewed 14010 times | | Born into a wealthy Republican family, his father a respected Boston attorney, Dave Dellinger graduated from Yale and then did time for refusing to register for the draft in World War II. He has been arrested numerous times for pacifist demonstrations since then. Dellinger was a leading figure in the movement against the war in Vietnam, and at age 54 was the oldest member of the Chicago Eight, the group that was prosecuted for conspiring to get clubbed by police at the Democratic convention in August 1968.
Dellinger was the founder, publisher, and editor of "Liberation" Magazine from 1956-1975. His recent autobiography is titled "From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter" (Pantheon, 1993).
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From Chocolate to Morphine : Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering
Drugs by Andrew Weil, Winifred Rosen
America's popular "natural"
physician, Andrew Weil gives it to you straight. Weil's approach
to recreational, mind altering substances is informative and unbiased.
Rather than judge the user, he feels everyone should know how these drugs
affect the body and mind, and how they can be used without being abused. |
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