Todd Gitlin has written 16 books, including history from the last century (“The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage”) and contemporary (“Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street”); sociology (“The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left”); communications theory (“Media Unlimited”); and three published novels, including “Sacrifice,” which won the Harold Ribalow Award for fiction on Jewish themes. He is a columnist for Tablet and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, and many magazines.