Margot Adler is the New York bureau chief for National Public Radio and the author of Drawing Down the Moon:
Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today. She lives in New York City with her husband
and son.
Review
"A fun-filled roller-coaster ride through the movements of the 1960s from the New York bureau chief for
National Public Radio,
--Tikkun
"Honest and human. . . . Should be honored for restoring history and pointing the way."
--Tom Englehardt, Philadelphia Inquirer
"Adler's account of her Mississippi summer is so pitch-perfect it brought back the heat, the fear and the
courage as though they were yesterday. . . . Her account is touchstone true."
--Molly Ivins
"With the curiosity of a journalist, the heart of a revolutionary, and the soul of an American woman, Margot
Adler has written a timeless and timely account."
--Gloria Steinem
"A generous, reflective memoir"
--Valerie Miner, Chicago Tribune
Beacon Press Web Site, April, 2002
Summary
In this dazzling memoir, Adler shares the 1960s she experienced�a time of new ideas, passionate commitments,
and social change. Recounting campus activism at the University of California at Berkeley and civil rights work
in Mississippi, the socialist revolution in Cuba and her extraordinary correspondence with an American soldier
in Vietnam, Adler's Heretic's Heart brings the true spirit of the decade alive.
