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...Hayden, E.D. Nixon, Allen Ginsberg, Allard Lowenstein, John Lewis, Stokely Carmichael, Jerry Rubin, Clark Kerr, James Mellon, Alan Canfora, Paul Williams, Joe Rauh, Bayard Rustin, James Famer. There were different heroes for different people. And though Viorst claims not to have written another history of the '60s, in a superior and unconventional way he has. The history is grounded in the civil rights movement, in Brown vs. the Board of Education, in E.D. Nixon and his Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. It is grounded in the "new values" of Jack Kerouac's prose--an inspiration for Tom Hayden...
...admission, Milton Viorst is an outsider looking in. And while he learned a lesson from the '60s, he betrays a naivete about the heart of America and its prodigal sons. After more than 500 pages of detailed interviews and timeless quotations. Viorst concludes that the movement died because the civil rights movement was no longer around "to enrich it." because the dissidents had alienated the liberal establishment sympathizers who legitimized the protest, because America was tired of it all. Though Viorst never sees the depth of the dehumanization in America that throttled the Movement and killed...
...understand the feeling that comes to a Southern Negro on entering Federal Court," Viorst quotes King, "unless he sees with his own eyes and feels with his own soul the tragic sabotage of justice in the city and state courts of the South. The Negro goes into these courts knowing that the cards are stacked against him...But the Southern Negro goes into the Federal Court with the feeling that he has an honest chance of justice before...
...sacred aura in this book, and it is vin dicated by its political and spiritual triumphs. But when the affluent college students of the '60s seize the revelations of the civil rights movement, the drama and courage of the protest, the transcendent irreverence of the beat generation, Viorst sees pretension; there is validity to the rancor, but will anyone...
...Viorst sees students pitying themselves, when perhaps they were just looking out the window, reading the newspapers, opening letters from the Selective Service, watching the death toll on the nightly news. They did not live in a campus vacuum, and too many students today know the terror of being 22 years old and leaving a sombre campus with nothing to do in the world...