Eric Leif Davin

Lobo and Morgan were legends of the street in the counter-cultural Seventies. Laughing and fighting, they battled the police and the Powers That Be from Berkeley to Cambridge and all points in between. This is their raucous account of their street fighting days in Cambridge, when Harvard Square was one of the spark plugs of the Revolution.

Deputy Dawg was a member of the STP Family, an informal counter-cultural group of street people in Boulder, Colorado in the 1970s. On the night of July 17, 1971, the Town Marshal of nearby Nederland, Colorado, arrested him and drove him to a dark and desolate mountain road. There the Town Marshal shot him in the head and left his body hidden in roadside bushes. This is the true story of that murder and its long aftermath.

Created by Wavy Gravy and the Hog Farm collective, Earth People's Park in northern Vermont was a major waystation of the hippie counter-culture from 1970-1990. This is an account of life there, as well as other waystations, such as Ann Arbor and Cambridge's Harvard Square, by one who lived the life. It is a unique account of a vanished lifestyle.

Populism is the dominant political ideology in America. This book explores the origins of that ideology and finds a double genesis: The classical Enlightenment liberal republican tradition espoused by John Locke, and the religious tradition of equality and resistance to hierarchy espoused by New England Puritans. Populism is the secular expression of an amalgamation of radical Puritan theology and European Enlightenment liberalism. This book traces the path to that double genesis.

The massive 1054 Crab Supernova was recorded in ancient Chinese, Japanese, and Arab sources... but there is no mention of it any European or Byzantine source. This book explores what this curious omission might say about what medieval and Byzantine chroniclers thought the important events were on Earth in 1054. In particular, it raises questions about what they thought about the Great Schism that split apart Christiandom into the Latin West and the Orthodox East, an event that also happened in 1054.

These essays cover a wide spectrum of fantasy and science fiction, dealing with its history, its personalities, and its evolution.

Tom Roper was the top Wobblie in Pittsburgh. He was also the Bureau of Investigation's best undercover agent. At a time of war, labor strife, and government repression, which identity would ultimately claim his loyalty?

This book examines the rise and fall of a handful of progressive and leftist third party efforts over the last century, from the 1920s to the present, including the Progressive Party of 1924, the Labor Party Movement of the 1930s, The Progressive Party of 1948, The People's Party of the 1970s, the California Peace and Freedom Party, and the Vermont Progressive Party. It also explores the enduring features of the American political system, including why the two-party system has continued to dominate American politics and elucidates the ideology of Lockian republican-populism, the foundational ideology of American politics.

The Great Steel Strike The horrors of the Great War, as World War I was then known, ended in Europe on November 11, 1918. Over the course of the next year, 1919, the hope of utopia, and the fear of a new tyranny, followed as the continent was engulfed in insurrection and reaction. In America, 1919 also brought hope and fear, the hope of a new era of working class empowerment, and the fear that such working class empowerment threatened the basic fabric of American society. Central to those American hopes, as well as fears, was the great steel strike of 1919. It was the largest single strike in American history up to that time. At its height over a third of a million steelworkers, mostly of immigrant background, were on strike. For them, it promised to bring about the long-sought unionization of the core industry of America's industrial economy. For those who opposed them, the strike threatened both the very nature of the American economic model, as well as America itself. Understanding the hopes of the workers, and the fears of those who fought them, also helps us understand why the strike was such a titanic confrontation. For both sides it was a battle for the soul of America, a battle for what it meant to be an "American."

They were desperate men in a savage land, and they had run out of time. But they had one last battle to fight.

Poems for youngsters of all ages. Poems about animals, birds, astronauts and detectives Poems to read aloud, poems to read silently, poems to shout, poems to sing, poems that ring, poems about almost everything

Political and personal poems by Eric Leif Davin, activist and provocateur.

Award-winning author Eric Leif Davin journeys to hell and back in this collection of his fantasy and science fiction stories. His journeys take him from a military base on the Moon to the far reaches of the galaxy, from the death of a dryad to an encounter with Satan himself. And everywhere, as he dances with the ghosts of dead ancestors and witnesses fantastic visions in the night sky, there's a hell hound on his trail.

Radical change was everywhere in the early 1970s, including education. The early 1970s Free School Movement was part of the change. As part of the era's counter-culture, it demanded that a new type of school be created, one that freed the minds of students instead of shackling them to the status quo. It was part of the movement to create an America dedicated to freedom, justice, and equality for all.

Anne Bonney had sworn eternal vengeance against the British Empire, which had sent a fleet to destroy her. But would the vampire in her own crew be more dangerous?

In the 1930s, ordinary people moved to create grassroots political movements which saved their communities. This is the story of how they did this in one New Hampshire town. It remains an inspiration to us all.