Radical Walking Tours of New York City

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$13.95 $20.95 (Canada) L9.99 (U.K.)
"[T]hose interested in the history of radicalism in the city will be rewarded by the depth of Kayton's knowledge." —New York magaziné
"Want to live longer? Do more walking. Want to learn from the pa$t, the pros and the cons? Go walking with Bruce Kayton. You learn about wonderful folks in the 20th century, the 19th century, even the 18th century, when all of New York's pop-ulation could be put on one Staten Island Ferry with room left over." —Pete Seeger
Traditional walking tours of New York enshrine the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they've left behind. Rarely seen are those buried in their wake—those who fought the power, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York Bruce Kayton leads us to monuments of those other heroes.
Through Kayton's lens, the history of all hitherto existing neighborhoods is the history of class struggles, civil rights battles, and labor movements; these twelve tours provide as many... Tovább

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$13.95 $20.95 (Canada) L9.99 (U.K.)
"[T]hose interested in the history of radicalism in the city will be rewarded by the depth of Kayton's knowledge." —New York magaziné
"Want to live longer? Do more walking. Want to learn from the pa$t, the pros and the cons? Go walking with Bruce Kayton. You learn about wonderful folks in the 20th century, the 19th century, even the 18th century, when all of New York's pop-ulation could be put on one Staten Island Ferry with room left over." —Pete Seeger
Traditional walking tours of New York enshrine the wealthy and war heroes by emphasizing what they've left behind. Rarely seen are those buried in their wake—those who fought the power, pushing for a better world. In Radical Walking Tours of New York Bruce Kayton leads us to monuments of those other heroes.
Through Kayton's lens, the history of all hitherto existing neighborhoods is the history of class struggles, civil rights battles, and labor movements; these twelve tours provide as many exdting, provocative, and educational afternoons. You can visít, for instance:
• Emma Goldman's long time home in the East Village;
• Langston Hughes's house in Harlem;
• the site of Mabel Dodge's sálon;
• the apartment in which John Reed worked on Ten Days That Shook the World;
• the site of Margaret Sanger's first doctor-directed birth control dinic.
There are alsó surprises on Kayton's voyages: who knew, for instance, that Candice Bergen was amongst the Yippies who, in protest, threw dollár bilis out onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1967.
From Battery Park to Harlem, from the Lower East Side to Central Park, Bruce Kayton's tours provide a new perspective on the history of both New York City and American radicalism.
Bruce Kayton has been a political activist for almost twenty-five years. He has been leading tours of New York City since 1991. Kayton's Radical Walking Tours Web site (www.he.net/~radtours) receives more than 10,000 inquires per year. He lives in New York City.
Cover design by Angéla Arnet Vissza