BOOK REVIEW: ‘Student Power, Democracy and Revolution in the Sixties’ By Nick Licata | Aug. 2021 | Hardcover, $95 | Nonfiction, memoir | Available at the Seattle Public Library
Nick Licata retired from the Seattle City Council in 2015 after 18 years of service. In his new memoir, “Student Power, Democracy and Revolution in the Sixties,” Licata tells the story of how he initially became politically active during college at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), a conservative school in north central Ohio. He was there during the tumultuous second half of the 1960s, when baby boomers were first becoming young adults, the Vietnam War was raging and a new student power movement was born. ...