The author recounts his years as a founding member of the New York branch of the Young Lords Organization, the Puerto Rican-American radical political group that arose in the late 1960s and had withered away by the mid 1970s. Melendez describes his own individual political growth and situates the Young Lords within the larger historical contexts of the Latino experience in the US and the radical politics of the 1960s. This is a paperbound reprint of a 2003 book. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)