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Class Encounters

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Class EncountersThose who lived through these years of struggle will identify with the choices Frinde Maher confronted. Younger generations will learn what it was like to participate in important life and death struggles. Hopefully, they will feel her same energetic commitment to the current round of strugglesclimate justice, true democracy, a world our grandchildren will want to live in. Michael Meeropol, Lifelong SDS Member and Red Diaper Baby Frinde Maher takes us

Those who lived through these years of struggle will identify with the choices Frinde Maher confronted. Younger generations will learn what it was like to participate in important life and death struggles. Hopefully, they will feel her same energetic commitment to the current round of struggles—climate justice, true democracy, a world our grandchildren will want to live in. —Michael Meeropol, Lifelong SDS Member and Red Diaper Baby


Frinde Maher takes us back to the early 1960s—personifying its idealistic and earnest curiosity … Class Encounters evokes a time when even the moderately wealthy believed they already had enough, so they could devote their own lives to other’s behalf ... —Carol Bundy, author of The Nature of Sacrifice, a Biography of Charles Russell Lowell


Honest, sweet and heartbreaking, Class Encounters shows a young woman’s remarkable journey, from a privileged 1950s childhood through coming of age—socially, politically, culturally, and personally—during the tumultuous 1960s ... —Kate Clifford Larson, historian and NY Times bestselling author


… You can take the girl out of the elite, but can you ever really take the elite out of the girl? That’s one of the many provocative questions bravely posed by Maher in this fascinating memoir. —Katha Pollitt, poet, essayist and columnist for The Nation

In her graceful, aptly titled memoir, Class Encounters, Frinde Maher traces her journey away from her privileged origins on Boston’s North Shore. She takes us through Radcliffe and Oxford into community organizing, anti-Vietnam War activism, factory work and membership in the Maoist-leaning communist Progressive Labor Party, before becoming a high school teacher in South Boston and later a college professor. Maher captures the stresses, nuances, complex choices and serendipities of navigating different social worlds that, themselves, were being shaken by the multiple revolts of the 1960s. Being members of Students for a Democratic Society wasn’t radical enough—when her father’s first cousin David Rockefeller attended her wedding to John Maher, himself a Harvard-educated anti-war organizer, John had already been challenged by Rockefeller’s daughter for not more openly supporting the Viet Cong.


America has long underplayed social class, while amplifying it in practice. Scholars, novelists and memoirists— Baltzell, Marquand, C. Wright Mills and Maher’s own brother Nelson Aldrich included—have explored the fault lines of high WASP culture and its now faded hegemony. Most observers have been men. Maher adds gender to the mix, along with attempts to cross the same class lines the other authors delineate. She explores her emerging voice and agency as she moves into the wider world to craft her own life—a life of change, self-discovery and continuity. She reminds us how central “class encounters” are to the American experience, a national strength when honestly embraced. This book is a timely reminder.

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One of my favorite purchases. The book arrived on time and in excellent condition. The book is a must have for serious scholars of this time period. I am most pleased to have found such an excellent addition to my library.
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Charles R. Wichman
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In Shamela, Fielding gives us the behind-the-scenes true Hollywood version of Pamela's story (and it's tabloid worthy). In Joseph Andrews, Fielding shares the tale of Pamela's brother caught in the same sort of madcap antics she endured.
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Bozeman, US
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An Excellent Film
The success of this film is derived from Paul Schrader’s concept for the film and his hiring of his production designer, Eiko Ishioka, a Japanese female artist. The four chapters are presented in a simple setting with ingenious design while telling Mishima’s personal history and development into a Nobel price winning author and martyr for his political beliefs. This blu ray is a new restored 4K digital transfer of the director’s cut. As usual Criterion Collection also included a wealth of commentaries, interviews, a 1985 documentary about Mishima and a booklet. A very best blu ray package if you are interested in the person and subject matters.
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Astonishing Movie
This is exactly the kind of movie that would never receive funding today and get within hailing distance of production. This movie was my 'gateway drug' into the dark and fascinating world of Yukio Mishima which is one of those things where, as the saying goes, "If you know, you know." This film is basically a collection of several short films woven together. One is the story of Mishima himself, from childhood up to the morning of his last day. The other shorts are taken from four of his novels, including my personal favorite, 'Runaway Horses'. For the biographical portions of the film, which are mostly in black-and-white, Roy Scheider's narration is excellent as well. All in all, this movie is a beautiful introduction to Yukio Mishima as well as an artistic triumph for Paul Schrader.
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