Todd Gitlin

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives is a book by Todd Gitlin.

The author was elected president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963, and he brings an insider's perspective to bear on the turbulent whirl of political, social, and sexual rebellion we now call "the sixties." Gitlin does a nice job of integrating his first-person recollections with a broader history that …