Sixties at 40

Ben Agger is the author of many previous books on Media and Critical Theory, including Postponing the Postmodern: Sociological Practices, Selves, and Theories (2002).

“[A] useful and different book offering insights on the storied decade of the 1960s. … A narrative timeline provides a valuable overview of people and events. … an invigorating and hopeful book.” —Library Journal From The Sixties at 40: “I was not governed completely by ideology, I was governed by experience ... and my experiences were contradictory.” —Tom Hayden “To a very great extent I would call the project of the sixties a democratization project. It’s still an ongoing and viable living practice in the U.S. and in other parts of the world.” —Richard Flacks “I don’t talk about myself as a Leftist, because we’re not a factor. We are not a political entity. I’m a union activist, I’m an environmental activist, a peace activist, but I wouldn’t say there is a Left.” —Mark Rudd “Obama’s campaign was a movement campaign, an insurgency—in large measure the product of a popular mobilization, passionate and well-organized, cross-demographic, the best of amateur politics harnessed to professional party intelligence.” —Todd Gitlin “The extent to which the Left is able to … hold Barack Obama accountable to a peace and justice agenda is the extent to which we move closer to a more democratic society and a more peaceful global existence.” —Fran Beal “The main thing I took from Camus was the idea that in this struggle for human betterment you had to walk a fine line so that you were neither a victim nor an executioner. And that, really, was very helpful going through all of the different twists and turns of the movement in the sixties.” —Robert Moses

• Preface, Acknowledgments, 1. Time It Was: Telling the Sixties Politically, 2. Timeline of the Sixties (Which Begin Earlier), 3. Port Huron and the New Left, 4. Bringing the War Home: Weatherman and Radical Dissent, 5. Love of Country, 6. Who Won the Sixties?, 7. Black Before White: From Civil Rights to Black and Brown Power and the Women’s Movement, 8. We Were Young Once: Our Children and the Next Left, 9. My Sixties at Fiftysomething, References, Index, About the Author