For a brief time, he seemed prescient. Read mostly by college students (who had time to read books), Mills quickly became a hero for the generation of the 1960s. Tom Hayden, the principal author of the famous 1962 "Port Huron Statement" (the political manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society [SDS), was himself an inspired student of Mills's sociology. Todd Gitlin, who authored a 1999 introduction to a new issue of The sociological lmagination, was once president of the SDS. In their study The Seeds of the Sixties, Andrew Jamison and Ron Eyerman include prominent discussion of Mills's influence on the generational upheaval that was brewing in the beatnik coffeehouses and quiet campuses of the late 1950s and early 1960s. There is no reason to doubt the validity of their assessment.