Gerald Haslam

02/25/2012 7:00 pm
In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa
Gerald and Janice Haslam
The Community Church of Sebastopol
Street:
1000 Gravenstein Hwy North
City:
Sebastopol
,
Province:
California
Country:
United States

One of the most gripping images from the 1960's captures Dr. S.I. Hayakawa scrambling onto an SF State sound truck. Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address assembled demonstrators, but instead he ripped out speaker wires and halted an illegal campus demonstration—or denied first-amendment rights to the crowd, depending on your perspective.
This intimate and detailed biography of the one-term Republican senator who consistently bucked his party’s ideals with his support of the women’s movement draws on interviews with friends and family members, as well as Hayakawa’s own papers and journals, to bring this controversial and fascinating figure to life.

In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa

By Gerald W. Haslam, Janice E. Haslam
$26.95