Gitlin, Todd

Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University and the author of twelve books, including The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage and, most recently, The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals. His essays and reporting have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, The American Prospect, and Harper’s Magazine (see his 1993 essay “The Left, Lost in the Politics of Identity” published here), among other publications, and he is a regular contributor to TPMcafe.com and CJR.org. His 1999 novel Sacrifice won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, an annual award for Jewish fiction.