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The sixties : years of hope, days of rage

Call Number

  • 973.922 G536 1993 (CEN)

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Edition

Rev. trade ed.

Publication Information

New York : Bantam Books, 1993.

Physical Description

xxiii, 513 p. ; 23 cm.

Summary

"Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade-- a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War. Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation in all its glory and tragedy."--Back cover.

Notes

"A Bantam trade paperback."

"Revised and with a new preface by the author"--Cover.

Contents

  • Cornucopia and its discontents: the wide open spaces of affluence: Terrors ; Intimations
  • Underground channels: Wild ones ; "What, me worry?" ; "Deliver me from the days of old"
  • Enclaves of elders: "A camaraderie of loneliness" ; The liberal summons ; Left remnants, red diapers
  • Leftward kicking and screaming: 1960 ; Uneasy in an anteroom in Camelot ; "Destructive criticism of a destructive system"
  • The fused group: "A band of brothers standing in a circle of love" ; The importance of being anti-anti-communist
  • Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round: Radicals and the liberal glow ; A collision of political cultures ; Justice and the department ; White shield, white heat ; Atlantic City ; The revolutionary pastorale ; Floaters and hardliners ; "The man without the uniform"
  • "Name the system": Old styles in acrimony ; "A frenzied one-sided anti-American show" ; "If they were serious" ; Enter progressive labor, laughing
  • "Everybody get together": All-purpose Apocalypse ; "I can't get no" ; "Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow" ; "Smile on your brother" ; Being-in ; "What it is ain't exactly clear"
  • Public nuisances: The theater of outlaws ; A comic collision ; The theory and practice of yippie ; Armed love in Fat City
  • Fighting back: A prologue to the late sixties ; "What does whitey do?" ; From protest to resistance ; What do these people want?
  • The other side: "All for Vietnam" ; "No paradise"
  • 1968: The politics of extremity ; Sleeping dogs ; Varieties of antiwar experience ; The loyal opposition ; Tet ; "A giant stampede"
  • The decapitation of the heroes: The last Black hope ; The action faction ; Dead center ; Violence shock
  • The crunch: Lurching toward Chicago ; The caldron ; The aftertaste of tear gas
  • The spring of hope, the winter of despair: The language of the millennium ; The bogey of race ; The fragile paradise of People' Park
  • Women: revolution in the revolution
  • The implosion: The antiwar stalemate ; The revolutionary loop ; The logic of sectarianism ; Kicking ass ; When prophecy fails ; "We have to create chaos" ; "We've got to turn New York into Saigon" ; Death culture
  • Fadeout
  • Carrying on: Settling in ; Encounter culture ; Kicking back ; In search of an ending.

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