Donald L BarnettDonald Lucas Barnett was born on January 10, 1930. He died, of a heart attack, on April 25, 1975, at the age of 45. It is noteworthy that this was the very same day that Vietnam won the war ... a small country defying and defeating the world's greatet superpower.Don's political work began in earnest in 1960, when he moved with his wife and 4 children, to Kenya in 1960. His extensive interviews with veterans of the Mau Mau guerrilla resistance there, later consolidated and published as 'Mau Mau From Within', were the basis for his doctoral dissertation analyzing 'revolutionary potential in peasant societies'. Don earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1963. In 1964, he was hired to teach Cultural Anthropology at Iowa State University. There, he became controversial in his opposition to the Vietnam war, and in May of 1968, was fired as a result of his activism. Read More Read Less