In 1944 as a young US Captain, Morton Gladstone flew in the lead allied aircraft of the D-Day invasion. In Europe he witnessed the horrors of World War II. Fifty years later, on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day - in a CBS TV News Special with Walter Cronkite reporting on President Clinton, President Mitterand and other world leaders meeting in Normandy - Morton Gladstone, in the New York studios, was invited to reflect on the historic events and how they shaped and re-directed his life.
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Over the years since the CBS broadcast Morton Gladsone's observations have been expanded into an autobiography Life in the Margin:
The Making of an Activist.
CHAPTERS
In Life in the Margin, Mort Gladstone shares scenes from a vivid and varied life that has spanned wealth, loss of wealth, war, peace, politics, marriage, family and activism:
1.The Schooling of an Activist
2.Crystallization
3.The Family
4.Cracks in the Façade
5.The Facade Crumbles
6.Early Experiences and Lessons Learned
7.Law School
11.The Trip to England
12.D-Day - the first plane. First drop
13.Misplacing the Rock of Gibraltar
14.The Liberation of Holland
15.Axis Sally's Invitation to Disaster in Berlin
16.To Paris and Beyond
17.The Whorehouse in the Sahara
18.An Irish Priest presides at the first Passover in Free France
19.
Lunch with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklis
20.After the Airforce
21.Business, Marriage, Politics and Activism
22.Family Life
23.Kitchen Cabinets and Murder
24.Nuremburg
25.The Humphrey Campaign
26.My World Federalist Years
27.Lexington Democratic Club
28.The International Criminal Court
29.Law of the Sea
30.A Marriage Made in Heaven 31.CBS TV Coast to Coast
32.Beyond D.Day - Reflections on war, peace and activism
33.Looking Back, Looking Forward
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Morton Gladstone has also gathered advice and suggestions of leading social activists in An Activist's Handbook
BIOGRAPHIES
The life stories of individuals who contributed their efforts to making a better world is both exciting and instructive. The organizations who answered our questionnaire about their activities are an inspiration, and may act as a stimulus for those who would like to become involved is some way in these or other such citizen activist efforts.
This Handbook is designed for two purposes:
1. To recognize and pay tribute to those who initiated these organizations.
2. To encourage, inform and advise those who may wish to become involved in supporting these groups and their causes or by starting their own activist groups, organizations, services or activities.
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