The Soft Revolution: A Student Handbook for Turning Schools Around

New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in metallic red, purple, and silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii,183,[1]pp; illus. Faint foxing to text edges, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.95), gently spine-sunned, showing modest shelfwear, a few tiny nicks and tears, some faint foxing to rear panel, and the faintest trace of a damp mark to lower edge of rear panel; Very Good+. A book of strategies for students from 15-25 "who want to change without violence, who want to turn the high schools and colleges around without destroying either (truncated) society or themselves...A central assumption of this book is that you can't change things if you refuse to accept the realities of the system in which you're operating, or refuse to deal with them. And you can't stage a successful revolution without allies – others in the world of education who want the curricula, the policies and the power structure to be truly democratic" (from the flap text). 82055. (Inventory #: 82055)