Drawing The Line: A Pamphlet

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by Paul Goodman

Published in 1962, this book combines material from Goodman’s 1945 ‘May Pamphlet’ with new essays and poems.  Topics include his views on anarchism, war, the cold War, violence, peace and American society.

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Paul Goodman, known in his day as “the philosopher of the New Left,” set the agenda for the youth movement of the Sixties with his best-selling Growing Up Absurd. He produced new books every year throughout that turbulent decade, while lecturing to hundreds of audiences on the nation’s campuses, covering subjects that ranged from movement politics to education and community planning; from psychotherapy and religion to literature, language theory, and media. There was little that did not fall within his purview as an old-fashioned “man of letters.” During this same heady period of his fame he also published his public letters and his journals, the Living Theatre performed his plays, his poems were set to music, and his fiction was chosen for book club distribution. America’s most celebrated public intellectual at the time of his death in 1972, his work still resonates for our own times of national crisis.

See the trailer for the 2011 film Paul Goodman Changed My Life.

“When I get confused about what is happening and what to do about it, I miss Paul’s eager and perceptive counsel… The important thing about Paul is that he raises the right questions. The fact that most of his answers are brilliant gives the reader an extra bonus.”
–Dave Dellinger, peace activist and founder of Liberation magazine

“The core of Goodman’s politics was his definition of anarchism…look not to the state for solutions but discover them for yourselves… He most passionately believed that man must not commit treason against himself, whatever the state—capitalist, socialist, et al—commands.”
–Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice

Paperback, 111 pages
Random House, New York
First Edition (1962)

Weight 6.7 oz
Dimensions 9 × 6 × 0.375 in

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