"Нe had made a transition that others had not, from revolutionary and radical politics to a more practical politics, a sort of left wing of the possible."
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Todd Gitlin
(January 6, 1943 – February 5, 2022) was an American sociologist, political activist and writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He wrote about the mass media, politics, intellectual life, and the arts for both popular and scholarly publications.
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