Whole World's Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960's and 1970's by Peter Coyote (Contribution by), Robert Schildgen (Editor), Bob Fitch (Photographer), Robert Hsiang (Photographer), Clayborne Carson (Contribution by)

Publishers Weekly

Photojournalism and critical commentary come together in The Whole World's Watching: Peace and Social Justice Movements of the 1960s & 1970s, an oversized volume part history, part tribute bearing witness to the protests and the upheavals that began in the socially engaged and politically volatile San Francisco Bay Area. Dramatic duotone photographs of Playboy bunnies, Black Panthers and student sit-ins punctuate essays like "Feminist Revolution in the Bay Area," "The Civil Rights Movement" and "Cesar Chavez, A Rebel of the Spirit." Contributors include actor Peter Coyote, historians Leon Litwack and Clayborne Carson, among many other scholars and activists; photographers include Bob Fitch and Robert Hsiang. (Nov.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Mario Savio, the late leader of the Free Speech Movement, notes in this celebration of San Francisco Bay activism that the region "is one of the few places...in the United States...where involvement in radical politics is not a form of social leprosy." This collection of photographs and short essays (mainly three to five pages long) relates many episodes of the protest movement that ignited in the Bay Area and spread throughout the country during the Sixties and Seventies. Contributors include highly regarded historians Leon Litwack (presenting an overview of the era) and Clayborne Carson (writing on the Civil Rights movement), as well as several award-winning photojournalists, who provide often stark examples of activists in action. The most intriguing stories are first-person accounts by participants, including Alice Hamburg discussing the Women's Strike for Peace, Ruth Rosen remembering the early feminist movement, Donna Amador describing Latino Power, and HolLynn D'Lil recounting the 1977 protest of disabled citizens that led to the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. The only notable omission is the Vietnam veterans who mounted important protests against the war. This book, which accompanies an exhibit at the Berkeley Art Center, is a worthy purchase for California public and academic libraries and for other academic and larger public libraries with collections in social protest and activism. Karl Helicher, Upper Merion Twp. Lib., King of Prussia, PA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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