Choose one:
To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher (Teachers College Press)
A Kind and Just Parent:The Children of Juvenile Court (Beacon)
Teaching Toward Freedom: Moral Commitment and Ethical Action in the Classroom (Beacon)
City Kids/ City Schools (The New Press)
Then make up your own mind, and send me a comment.
Bill Ayers 
I am going to get these books – especially the last one listed.
I am DISGUSTED by the manure that McCain- Palin are slinging at you.
I know you from my days at National College of Education – I heard you talk at their opening day deal for faculty – you talked about all the great stuff at wealthy suburban schools – and then the “M” schools in the inner city, where you would see kids tracing the letter “M” all day. I know you were then and are now a vital part of the Chicago School Reform Movement. And Chicago schools are different – better- because of you.
On a personal note, you helped me out by talking with a colleague of mine – Ed Mikel – back in the day when National was bringing education programs to St. Louis.
Now, I work for the board of a network of charter schools in St. Louis . So your books are particularly relevant to me. But I also know you from then. And I think you are being victimized.
I am really pissed that the national media hasn’t interviewed the bi-partisan members of the Chicago School Reform Movement ( they did on NPR) You need to get these guys to get on camera and on microphone.
I think you are terrific, and I am really – well, “pissed”is the only word I can use.
You have my best wishes and support. You are not only an intellectual inspiration, you are also a person who was very kind to me and my colleague when we were just starting out in St. Louis.
In short -“You GO, Boy!”
Carmel Calsyn
St,. Louis, MO
I haven’t read any of those, but look forward to having the chance. Fortunately education toward freedom still is alive and kicking, and on friday we will celebrate A. S. Neill’s 125th birthday here at Summerhill School!! Maybe you would send us as a present the book you wrote about the school in 2003?
Thanks a lot and greetings from Summerhill!
Nacho
Sir,
I have read your books and they are outstanding. I am writing to convey my deepest admiration for you and utter disgust at how the corporate-sponsored media.
McCain is losing my vote.
Wow, Professor Ayers, I truly admire the hopeful and positive outlook you have on people in America being able to “make up their own minds.”
I hope you’re right, and although many, especially those who admire your teachings, your ideology and philosophies, or who are simply lucid, clear-headed and alert, have no problem with this, there seems to be a crawling, mewling surge of venomous pond-scum hissing out of some dark place in the forgotten backwoods of an America that time forgot that I have reason to believe may NOT be able to make the grade.
To make up a mind, first you have to know you have one….
Good luck out there in the swamp.
Amitiés from France
Bill: Perhaps you might give some thought to an interview or a column about your current life. It could clear up this terrible, racist hatred boiling over in the country. I fear for Mr. Obama’s life based on wrongful attacks against him and you. Palin and McCain have done everything to incite hate directed at you as well. Please, think about doing this service for the people who understand the 1970’s. I was a war protester in Madison, WI. I get it. If we had stopped that war earlier, my brother would be alive today. But, alas, he died. Now, we must stand up for the future…
pure crap these books are, all of you folks need to develop some critical thinking skills and question all authority versus just following Ayers like the sheep you are
Long live the spirit of Weather. All power to (all of) the people!
Did you actually fix up/write/ghostwrite “Dreams from My Father” for Barrack Obama? You write so much better than he does, so just got to wonder.
You are a terrorist and all of you on this blog who think otherwise should not call yourself Americans. You sir are a bastard who should have met the same fate as Timothy McVey!
I hope you realise that there are more people out there who have a deeper insight into what happened in the “Vietnam era”. So please do not let those without a perspective of history get you down. Peace.