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...Gitlin??s fatherly knowingness is comforting and patronizing. His insights are priceless. He analyzes how the turbulent ’60s differ from our own moment, noting how the student movement of the 1960s can be both inspirational and intimidating...
Moreover, assasinations, riots, and Vietnam’s refusal to end make the 1960s as dark and ominous as it was bright and jubilant. And Gitlin??s movement ultimately splintered, leaving a legacy of extremism, violence and the hedonism of the 1970s in its place...
...Gitlin??s critique of fragmentation and contrarianism is more than philosophical dissent. He laments that while the Left was “hanging loose,” the Right took control. Gitlin saves his harshest admonishments for the right wing conservatives who occupy the highest echelons of power (and did so, says Gitlin, before George W. Bush was appointed president by the Supreme Court) and the Naderites who helped boost the current administration...
...Gitlin??s book was mostly written in the summer and fall of 2002, and perhaps for that reason, does not deal significantly with the war with Iraq or the substantial anti-war protests surrounding...
...Gitlin??who will return to Harvard at 6 p.m. Monday to speak in the Holyoke Center—says those “nightmare visions” of nuclear annihilation may soon recur...
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