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Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century
Out of Step An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century Author:Sidney Hook Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century is philosopher Sidney Hook's memoir of his lifelong commitment to social justice and political freedom. From the era of the Great War and Woodrow Wilson through the Cold War and Ronald Reagan, there is hardly an important issue on which he has not spoken out, an acade... more »mic controversy or political struggle in which he was not an active participant.
Born to immigrant parents in a poor Jewish section of Brooklyn, Sidney Hook distinguished himself on the strength of intellect, on his capacities for lucid reasoning and tenacious argument.
He began his public career as the West's most knowledgeable interpreter of Marx and has become one of the most outstanding enemies of Communism. Out of Step is the dramatic story of changes in thought and sentiment during a period as crowded with revolutionary developments as any comparable era in human history. It is a story of a life dedicated to the principle that, in the author's words, "Man's vocation ought to be the use of the art of intelligence in behalf of freedom."« less