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Preface to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition
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Preface to the Fortieth Anniversary Edition What follows is the original edition of my 1972 book, The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left. The text hasn’t been changed, but I have added at the end a list of annotated errata, which corrects typos and lets me elaborate on a few small mistakes in the account. They explain the nature of the error. And I have added a closing afterword, which attempts to bring some things, but not all, up to date, such as the evolution of the New Catholic Left post trial and how the trial affected the larger political life of the country. Forty years is not a short time and a great deal has happened, but the case of the Harrisburg Seven did resonate through the culture in a number of ways. I have also appended a selected bibliography and added an index, neither of which was in the original publication. Looking back at a book about a trial forty years after the fact is opening a time capsule of sorts. But even with the span of time involved, less has changed than many of the individuals involved, including myself, would have thought, or hoped for. I would like to thank again all those mentioned in the original edition’s acknowledgments, with the addition of the Fine Arts Work Center, in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which I unfortunately left out back then, along with Ford Burkhart. And for this one, four decades later, I would like to thank those at the University of Notre Dame Press, Barbara Hanrahan , Stephen Little, Harv Humphrey, Kathy Pitts, Rebecca DeBoer, Ann Bromley, Margaret Gloster, Diane Schaut, Margo Shearman, and all those in production, as well; and Agustin Fuentes and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, along with my colleagues at Notre xi Dame, especially those with a Catholic Left bent, Valerie Sayers, Chris Jara, Chris Fox, Judy Fox, Dolores Frese, Jerry Frese, Sonia Gernes, Gene Halton, Chris Vanden Bossche, Laura Haigwood, Joseph Buttigieg, Anne Montgomery, John Sitter, Kate Ravin, Steve Moriarty, and Frank Connolly , for all their support. And David Black, Kevin Coyne, Charles DeFanti , R. D. Skillings, David Matlin, Joan Harris, Irini Spanidou, Jaimy Gordon, Betty Signer, and Maggie Nerio for their continuing aid. And if I were rededicating this book, I would do so only by adding my son, Joseph, who, at age twenty-one, exemplifies all the young people back then who were fighting the good fight, attempting to right wrongs whenever and wherever they found them. W. O. preface to the fortieth edition xii ...