Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin attended New York City public schools, where he graduated as valedictorian of the Bronx High School of Science. He holds degrees in three different subjects: mathematics (B. A., Harvard), political science (M. A., Michigan), and sociology (Ph. D., Berkeley). Along the way, he became a political activist in the New Left of the 1960s, contributed to the so-called underground press, and began to write books.

He's written twelve books, chiefly on media and recent America, including Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (co-author, 1970); The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the Left (1980); Inside Prime Time (1983); The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1987); The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars (1995); Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (2002); Letters To a Young Activist (2003); The Intellectuals and the Flag (2006); and most recently, The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Of Identities and Ideals in the Uproar of American Politics (John Wiley, September 2007). Also a book of poetry, Busy Being Born (1974), and two novels: The Murder of Albert Einstein (1992) and Sacrifice (1999), the latter of which won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for novels on Jewish themes. His books have been translated into many languages.

He contributes to many newspapers and magazines, lectures frequently in the United States and abroad, is a member of the editorial board of Dissent,and is online regularly at TPMcafe.com and CJR.org.

www.toddgitlin.net