Title: The long march : how the cultural revolution of the 1960s changed America /
Authors: Kimball, Roger, 1953-
Publisher: Encounter Books,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Nineteen sixties.; Nineteen seventies.; Radicalism United States History; Subculture United States History; Social change United States History; Social values United States History; United States Civilization; United States Intellectual life
Abstract: "Others may think of the 1960s as The Last Good Time, but Kimball has no patience with such nostalgia. He sees this decade as a seedbed of excess and moral breakdown. He argues that the radical assaults on "the System" that took place then still define the way we live now - with intellectually debased schools and colleges, morally chaotic sexual relations and family life, and a degraded media and popular culture."
Contents: Introduction: what is a cultural revolution? -- A gospel of emancipation -- Norman Mailer's American dream -- Susan Sontag & the new sensibility -- The liberal capitulation -- The politics of delegitimation -- The marriage of Marx & Freud -- The greening of America -- The project of rejuvenilization -- Eldridge Cleaver's serial extremism -- A nostalgia for Molotovs -- What the sixties wrought.