Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the 60's

Horowitz, David,Collier, Peter

ISBN 10: 0671701282 / ISBN 13: 9780671701284

Published by Summit Books, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the 60's
• Publisher: Summit Books
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671701282
• ISBN 13: 9780671701284
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Collier and Horowitz--former editors of the 1960's New Left magazine Ramparts discuss their "second thoughts" about the social revolution of that decade. 9 cassettes.

From Library Journal

A compilation of memoirs and reportage on the New Left, valuable for its insider insights on New Left strategy and tactics. The authors, celebrated biographers of the Fords, Kennedys, and Rockefellers, primarily use interviews and personal recall to reconstruct an era when moral causes summoned many, but where a willful minority dominated the parapets of activism. Their account might have been enriched with greater psychological analysis of those in the New Left, although their simple analogy of the Left as "like those Japanese soldiers who wandered for years in the jungle, unaware that they had lost the war" may be a more biting explanation. A readable recounting of lost times, lost souls, and lost opportunities. Recommended reading for the politically innocent. Conservative Book Club selection.
- James L. Jablonowski, Marquette Univ., Milwaukee
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