After All These Years: Sixties Ideals in a Different World - Softcover

Kessler, Lauren

9780938410928: After All These Years: Sixties Ideals in a Different World

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093841092X ISBN 13: 9780938410928

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Pr, 1990

Fifty political activists of the 60s describe how they have integrated socially conscious ideals into their lives and careers

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From Publishers Weekly:

Kessler's anecdotal evidence that some '60s activists have turned their values into socially and politically conscious lives is only mildly convincing and even less interesting. Each of four parts, including "Right Livelihood" and "Counter/Culture," begins with a profile/interview of a celebrity activist (such as Angela Davis and Gloria Steinem) followed by a brief historical essay by Kessler and personal narratives from antiwar, civil rights and other activists. Journalist Kessler's ( The Dissident Press ) own notes are striking more for their air of nostalgia than their insight; the oral histories themselves are uninspiring. While several subjects, like the ex-hippie who became mayor of Eureka Springs, Ark., help make Kessler's case, her choice of others is baffling. One fellow, whose parents fled the Spanish Civil War, is actually smug about being "politicized": after all, his parents "were pretty much illiterate immigrants." A daughter of two schoolteachers who had thought her parents' jobs were "horrendous" soon worked out her ideals for social change--by becoming a schoolteacher.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

In Beyond the Barricades ( LJ 9/15/89), sociologists Jack Whalen and Richard Flacks challenge the notion that most Sixties radicals eventually abandoned their youthful ideals and became politically and economically conservative. Kessler (journalism, Univ. of Oregon) takes a similar tack, arguing that the Sixties ethos lives on in the hearts of many maturing hippies, despite focus on its more superficial aspects by advertising and the popular media. Forty-one "survivors," including four luminaries (Angela Davis, Tom Hayden, Gloria Steinem, and Arlo Guthrie), talk briefly about then and now, with emphasis on how they have kept the faith. No new ground is explored in this browsable oral history, but the book should find a welcome niche in larger libraries.
-Kenneth F. Kister, Tampa, Fla.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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