As much as possible in my backwater town in southeast Missouri I was a student radical.
I was suspended from high school for participating in a demonstration at the campus administration building. I owned Mao Tse Tung’’s “Little Red Book,” Abbie Hoffman’s “Steal This Book” and “Our Time Is Now,” a collection of radical essays from high school journalists. (All of those books were confiscated from my locker during a surprise sweep by school authorities.)