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Title: The Sixties: Years of Hope Days of Rage by Todd Gitlin ISBN: 0553372122 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.88
Rating: 1
Summary: needs perspective
Comment: One review says this book is "Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation." This is accurate - though some parts are larger than others. The critical history is very interesting - but the personal memoir, which dominates the book, is not. Gitlin has a lot of interesting and incisive things to say, but he dwells far too much on boring minutiae like who Tom Hayden's girlfriend was in different months.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant Account of 60's Student Movement
Comment: A rare constellation of virtues made it hard to put down this riveting volume. First of all, Gitlin is a superb writer. His language often reaches a literary quality, he has a novelist's eye for detail, an investigative journalist's command of the relevant information, and a story-teller's ability with narrative. That Gitlin is an academic sociologist shows through in his capable analyses of social forces. His description of the dynamics of escalation in the student movement's activities together with its own self-understanding is especially enlightening. His account is also impressively fair-minded. Because he cared so much about achieving the goals of the student movement, Gitlin describes what was thought and done both sympathetically and critically. These and other reasons make the book well worth reading for anyone interested in U.S. culture. But for those of us who were involved in the campus struggles against the war in Nicaragua or against investment in apartheid South Africa in the '80's or, indeed, in any such campaigns since, this book creates a debt of gratitude.
Rating: 3
Summary: in lieu of history, a personal view of the 60s
Comment: This is one of the better books available on the 1960s and what they meant. Gitlin, formerly high in the SDS organization, was an actor as the drama unfolded. The sections related to his memories are exceptional, as are certain portions in subjects such as the black panthers. Unfortunately, his assessment as a whole was a bit thin for me, kind of like an appetizer rather than the decisive feast I had hoped for. Maybe, because the 1960s are still at the center of the US political debate whether we admit it or not, it is too early to tell all the stories together, definitively, as has been done of the 1950s by Halberstam. Because I remember most of the events he treats, I was hoping for a more comprehensive treatment of them so that I could put my feelings in perspective.
As a liberal, Gitlin's views are clear. While I am more conservative than he, I empathise with where he was coming from. For me, as a high school student, the 60s were the ideal carnival: why not ditch school to protest war? I feared being drafted, escaped it by a nose when the war ended, and wanted to relive this from a different pint of view. It wasn't available in this book.
Recommended, but not great.
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Title: The Movement and the Sixties by Terry H. Anderson ISBN: 0195104579 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition by Theodore Roszak ISBN: 0520201221 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties Reader by Irwin Unge, Irwin Unger, Debi Unger ISBN: 0609803379 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The 60's: From Memory to History by David Farber ISBN: 0807844624 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Hippies From A to Z: Their Sex, Drugs, Music and Impact From the Sixties to the Present by Skip Stone, Paul Williams ISBN: 1930258011 Publisher: HIP Publishing Pub. Date: 10 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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