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The son of a well-to-do Boston lawyer, David Dellinger seemed cut out for a distinguished career in law or government. But rejecting his comfortable background, he walked out of Yale one afternoon during the Great Depression, in his oldest clothes and without any money, to ride the freight trains, sleep at missions, and stand in breadlines. It was while sharing a warming fire on a street corner in a hobo jungle that he first knew that in his own way he would follow the path of Francis of Assisi. Dellinger lived among the poor in Newark, was bloodied in the freedom marches through the South, and led countless hunger strikes in jail. In the "hole" in Danbury prison he faced his own death, to be reborn with courage that would never desert him. Always, he reached out to his antagonist to find a common ground. Dellinger introduced Gandhi's principles of nonviolence to the political street struggles against the Vietnam War, holding together the broad-based antiwar coalition he forged by the sheer force of his personality. In 1968 he held the world spellbound with his cry "the whole world is watching," referring to the media coverage of the Chicago police riot. His life of service to social change had its crowning moment before Judge Julius Hoffman during the Chicago Eight trial, where Dellinger and his co-defendants turned the tables on their accusers to put the government on trial. His recollections of those years shed new light on many of the most crucial events of the 1960s, bringing to life again the drama of those turbulent years. His inside account of what happened in the sixties, and of the people who shaped that decade - Martin Luther King, Jr., Abbie Hoffman, Bayard Rustin, A.J. Muste, Dorothy Day, Jerry Rubin, Joan Baez, and many more - is an indispensable chapter in the story of our time. Above all, From Yale to Jail is a stirring account of an extraordinary spiritual journey, as moving as it is inspiring.… (mehr)
Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, David Dellinger could have had it all. A talented athlete from an affluent background, educated at Yale and Oxford, he had every advantage. But he gave them up for justice and principle, enduring financial insecurity, long prison terms, hunger strikes, death threats, for what he believed in: Christian pacifism, later secular anarchism and humanism.
While at Yale, he went tramping, briefly living like a homeless derelict to see how the "other half" lived. Chapters 8 and 9 of this book are reminiscent of the down-and-out books of George Orwell or Jack London. After graduation from Yale—magna cum laude—and a year at Oxford, Dellinger went to live in hobo camps in New Jersey. In 1940 he was invited by Eleanor Roosevelt to have tea at the White House. He went, had tea with her, then hopped a freight train back home!
Imprisoned during World War II for refusing to register for the draft, he refused to co-operate in any way with warmaking. As a divinity student he was eligible for a deferment, but rejected preferential treatment not available to others. In prison he was abused to the point of torture, force-fed, then released early because the prison authorities couldn't handle him.
Later he published Liberation Magazine and other influential journals of progressive thought. In 1965 his print shop was trashed by vandals. During the Vietnam war he joined Bertrand Russell's war crimes tribunal in Sweden and went to North Vietnam and got American soldiers released from Vietnamese prisons. He had a cordial relationship with Ho Chi Minh, who liked and trusted him as a man of peace. After the death of A. J. Muste in 1967, Dellinger became the leader of the American peace movement. As one of the Chicago Eight defendants, he tried to put the U.S. government on trial for its crimes. Dellinger was a gentle man of great courage and rare integrity. Sometimes likened to Francis of Assisi or Mohandas K. Gandhi, he treated everyone with respect, including his adversaries. But during the Chicago trial he refused to stand when the judge entered the room because he said he believed in equality. This book is action packed and rich in historical and philosophical insights. Also good insights into other prominent peace activists. Must reading for anyone interested in sixties America, or in the home front during the Vietnam war. ( )
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The son of a well-to-do Boston lawyer, David Dellinger seemed cut out for a distinguished career in law or government. But rejecting his comfortable background, he walked out of Yale one afternoon during the Great Depression, in his oldest clothes and without any money, to ride the freight trains, sleep at missions, and stand in breadlines. It was while sharing a warming fire on a street corner in a hobo jungle that he first knew that in his own way he would follow the path of Francis of Assisi. Dellinger lived among the poor in Newark, was bloodied in the freedom marches through the South, and led countless hunger strikes in jail. In the "hole" in Danbury prison he faced his own death, to be reborn with courage that would never desert him. Always, he reached out to his antagonist to find a common ground. Dellinger introduced Gandhi's principles of nonviolence to the political street struggles against the Vietnam War, holding together the broad-based antiwar coalition he forged by the sheer force of his personality. In 1968 he held the world spellbound with his cry "the whole world is watching," referring to the media coverage of the Chicago police riot. His life of service to social change had its crowning moment before Judge Julius Hoffman during the Chicago Eight trial, where Dellinger and his co-defendants turned the tables on their accusers to put the government on trial. His recollections of those years shed new light on many of the most crucial events of the 1960s, bringing to life again the drama of those turbulent years. His inside account of what happened in the sixties, and of the people who shaped that decade - Martin Luther King, Jr., Abbie Hoffman, Bayard Rustin, A.J. Muste, Dorothy Day, Jerry Rubin, Joan Baez, and many more - is an indispensable chapter in the story of our time. Above all, From Yale to Jail is a stirring account of an extraordinary spiritual journey, as moving as it is inspiring.
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While at Yale, he went tramping, briefly living like a homeless derelict to see how the "other half" lived. Chapters 8 and 9 of this book are reminiscent of the down-and-out books of George Orwell or Jack London. After graduation from Yale—magna cum laude—and a year at Oxford, Dellinger went to live in hobo camps in New Jersey. In 1940 he was invited by Eleanor Roosevelt to have tea at the White House. He went, had tea with her, then hopped a freight train back home!
Imprisoned during World War II for refusing to register for the draft, he refused to co-operate in any way with warmaking. As a divinity student he was eligible for a deferment, but rejected preferential treatment not available to others. In prison he was abused to the point of torture, force-fed, then released early because the prison authorities couldn't handle him.
Later he published Liberation Magazine and other influential journals of progressive thought. In 1965 his print shop was trashed by vandals. During the Vietnam war he joined Bertrand Russell's war crimes tribunal in Sweden and went to North Vietnam and got American soldiers released from Vietnamese prisons. He had a cordial relationship with Ho Chi Minh, who liked and trusted him as a man of peace. After the death of A. J. Muste in 1967, Dellinger became the leader of the American peace movement. As one of the Chicago Eight defendants, he tried to put the U.S. government on trial for its crimes. Dellinger was a gentle man of great courage and rare integrity. Sometimes likened to Francis of Assisi or Mohandas K. Gandhi, he treated everyone with respect, including his adversaries. But during the Chicago trial he refused to stand when the judge entered the room because he said he believed in equality. This book is action packed and rich in historical and philosophical insights. Also good insights into other prominent peace activists. Must reading for anyone interested in sixties America, or in the home front during the Vietnam war. (