DESTRUCTIVE GENERATION: Second Thoughts About the '60s - Softcover

Collier, Peter; Horowitz, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684826410 ISBN 13: 9780684826417

Publisher: Free Press, 1996

Synopsis

Argues that sixties radicalism was basically destructive and its main legacy is the common belief in America's untrustworthiness

About this title

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
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Free Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0684826410
• ISBN 13: 9780684826417
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400