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The Making of a Radical

A Political Autobiography

by Scott Nearing

Table of Contents

Preface to the Original Edition
Foreword to the Chelsea Green Edition
What So Proudly I Hailed
1. My Early Teachers 3
2. I Decide to Teach 30
3. Battling Economic Determination 42
4. A Teacher Must Communicate 52
5. Contacts and Conflicts with the Oligarchy 76
6. The Guns Began to Shoot 105
7. I Register in the College of Hard Knocks 122
The Twilight's Last Gleaming
8. I Search for Perspective 133
9. Blackout in Communication 158
10. Again the Guns 177
11. I Part Company with Western Civilization 193
12. Cyclone Cellar in New England 207
The Dawn's Early Light
13. Watching and Waiting for the Dawn 237
14. Socialism - False Dawn or True? 257
15. The Perilous Fight 275
16. Last Term of My Education 289
Chronological Bibliography 303