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Todd Gitlin

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The fancy term for what America has squandered in the past year and a half or so is legitimacy.


— Todd Gitlin


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The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.


— Todd Gitlin


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The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.


— Todd Gitlin


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The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.


— Todd Gitlin


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To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.


— Todd Gitlin


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Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.


— Todd Gitlin


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We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.


— Todd Gitlin


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Did you know about Todd Gitlin?

After his leadership in SDS he earned graduate degrees from the University of Michigan (political science) and the University of California Berkeley (sociology). He is now a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph. Public intellectual
He has written 15 books and hundreds of articles in dozens of publications including The New York Times Los Angeles Times Washington Post Boston Globe Ha'aretz Columbia Journalism Review Tablet Magazine The New Republic Mother Jones and many more.

Todd Gitlin (born 1943) is an American sociologist political writer novelist and cultural commentator.

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