By the Light of Burning Dreams

Radical leaders of the 1960s and ’70s come to vivid life in this volume of revealing profiles from two veteran journalists. The political landscape of the 1960s and 1970s was one of the most tumultuous in this country's history, shaped by the struggle for civil rights, women’s liberation, Black power, and ending the Vietnam War. In many ways, this second American revolution sought to fulfill the betrayed promises of the first—extending the full protections of the Bill of Rights to America’s marg