Cultural Writing. Political Science. "Tom Hayden's incisive book not only offers a well-informed and humane plan to end this disastrous war, but it is an invaluable testament as to why working for peace is in America's best interest as a democratic republic. For those seeking to understand important post war 'lessons'--read this book. As Hayden argues eloquently, losing the war should be blamed on a superpower mentality (and its proselytizers), not on the peace and justice movement, progressive Democrats, or the American people"--Katrina vanden Heuvel. Tom Hayden was a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society and author of its visionary call, the Port Huron Statement, described by Howard Zinn as "one of those historic documents which represents an era." He was also one of the famous "Chicago Eight" protesters during the 1968 Democratic Convention. He was elected to the California State Assembly in 1982, and to the State Senate ten years later, serving eighteen years in all.