Cultural Writing. Essays. "His journey is our journey through the tumultuous and disillusioning decades. He is our Everyman, he is us"--Seattle Post-Intelligencer. From his earliest days as a Freedom Rider and leader of Students for a Democratic Society, through decades as a state senator, to contemporary notes on the Iraq war, the global South, immigration, and spirituality, Tom Hayden's writing constitute nothing less than an alternative history of our times. WRITINGS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY is the only book that encapsulates Tom Hayden's writing over fifty years, a time in which he has been a reflective eyewitness to American history in the making. The book is composed of sections about the New Left of the 1960s, the Chicago 8, Vietnam, electoral politics, gang violence, Ireland, the environment, global justice, and US foreign policy today. Tom Hayden is the author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed books, including Reunion and Street Wars.