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THE TIMES, THE STUDENTS, THE CHALLENGE

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The making of the anthology 

During the nine years of the book's development, the group recruited the book's more than 90 living authors, researched over 150 college libraries and archives, and corresponded with long-lost colleagues around the country.

"This splendid history of NSA is vivid, galvanizing, urgent. Every college and public library, every class concerned with public matters requires this book."
Blanche Wiesen Cook, University Distinguished Professor, John Jay College & The Graduate Center, CUNY. Author, The Declassified Eisenhower; Eleanor Roosevelt, vols. I & II; vol. III forthcoming.

"More than a chronicle of the NSA's history . . . . American Students Organize is a wonderful resource that adds to the understanding of the roots of student organizing -- an amazing collection."
Kathy Borkowski, Editorial Director, Wisconsin Historical Society Press.
 

The anthology includes a prologue to the pre-war era and an epilogue through to the present. It is carefully cross referenced, documented with archival resources and clippings from student newspapers of the time, all thoroughly indexed and connected by numerous pictorial albums.

To complete the project the sponsors raised over $400,000 from more than 150 individuals and from several corporations, with major grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Culpepper Foundation, Janis Dowd and Daan Zwick, and the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Foundation. Additional supporting grants were received from the Spencer Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundations, the Shelly and Donald Rubin Foundation, and the Leonard and Alice Perlmutter Foundation.

Published by the American Council on Education / Praeger. Produced by the USNSA Anthology Project