Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism, sociology and American studies and chair of the Ph.D. program in communications at Columbia University. He is the author of 16 books, including several on journalism and politics.
Todd Gitlin was the third president of Students for a Democratic Society. In 1968, he wrote for underground papers, including a daily published by Ramparts magazine in Chicago. He teaches journalism, sociology and American studies at Columbia University, and wrote about the Democratic convention in <The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage</i>.
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Todd Gitlin
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