Sixties at 40

[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. Its still an ongoing and viable living practice in the U.S. and in other parts of the world. Richard Flacks I dont talk about myself as a Leftist, because were not a factor. We are not a political entity. Im a union activist, Im an environmental activist, a peace activist, but I wouldnt say there is a Left. Mark Rudd Obamas campaign was a movement campaign, an insurgencyin 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

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

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 Womens Movement, 8. We Were Young Once: Our Children and the Next Left, 9. My Sixties at Fiftysomething, References, Index, About the Author