June 9, 2006

'David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary'

By NINA C. AYOUB

Decades over 30, David Dellinger was the old man of the "Chicago Seven." Yet with the 1969 trial of antiwar activists — eight until Bobby Seale's case was severed — Dellinger became as famous as such younger fellow defendants as Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, and Jerry Rubin.

In Dellinger's life, all roads lead to and from Chicago, says Andrew E. Hunt, a scholar of U.S. history at Ontario's University of Waterloo. But the activist's early paths have been little

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