The people of this generation
Subtitle: the rise and fall of the New Left in Philadelphia
By: Paul Lyons.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: New Left -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History; College students -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century; Radicalism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Description: "At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying themselves as the New Left, as distinguished from the Old Left socialists who engineered the historic labor protests of the 1930s, these young idealists quickly became the voice and conscience of their generation. The People of This Generation is the first comprehensive case study of the history of the New Left in a Northeast urban environment. Paul Lyons examines how campus and community activists interacted with the urban political environment, especially the pacifist Quaker tradition and the rising ethnic populism of police chief and later mayor Frank Rizzo. Moving away from the memories and overviews that have dominated histories of the period, Lyons uses this detailed metropolitan study as a prism for revealing the New Left's successes and failures and for gauging how the energy generated by local activism cultivated the allegiance of countless citizens."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-267) and index.