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Doug McAdam
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Doug McAdam (born August 31, 1951) is an American sociologist. He is Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.
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We were a “can do” people, who accomplished whatever we set out to do. We had licked the Depression, turned the tide in World War II, and rebuilt Europe after the war. ... Freedom Summer was an audacious undertaking consistent with the exaggerated sense of importance and potency shared by the privileged members of America’s postwar generation.
Freedom Summer (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 14-15
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