In 1940 he was invited by Eleanor Roosevelt to have tea at the White House. After graduation from Yale-magna cum laude-and a year at Oxford, Dellinger went to live in hobo camps in New Jersey.
Chapters 8 and 9 of this book are reminiscent of the down-and-out books of George Orwell or Jack London. While at Yale he went tramping, briefly living like a homeless derelict to see how the "other half" lived. But he gave them up for justice and principle, enduring financial insecurity, long prison terms, hunger strikes, death threats, for what he believed in: Christian pacifism, later secular humanism. A talented athlete from an affluent background, educated at Yale and Oxford, he had every advantage.
Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, David Dellinger could have had it all.
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