The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994This volume represents the 30 years‘ aftershocks of the cataclysmic battles of the 1960s, as recorded by one of the major journalists of that generation. A chronicle of political and cultural life from 1965 until Andrew Kopkind‘s death in October of 1994, it tracks the black civil rights movement, the New Left, Prague in the wake of Soviet invasion and Moscow during the Soviet collapse, Woodstock, drug wars, blue-collar attitudes, Christian soldiers and gay soldiers. As a gay man, Kopkind understood that there is no pure realm of the personal, and his writing captures history as it happened. |
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THE THIRTY YEARS' WARS: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994
User Review - KirkusAn absorbing stroll down a potholed, rubble-strewn memory lane with a leading left-wing journalist. The late Kopkind (Decade of Crisis, not reviewed, etc.), a regular contributor to stalwarts like the ... Read full review
Contents
DREADFUL OPTIMISM | 3 |
Bureaucracys Long Arm | 16 |
Dreadful Optimism | 31 |
MiniStar for Governor | 45 |
ALL SYSTEMS FAIL | 61 |
Battle of Newark | 82 |
The Liberals Progress | 96 |
All Fools Eve | 112 |
Americas Ultimate Strategic Hamlet | 278 |
CULTURE CLASH | 293 |
The Dialectic of Disco | 308 |
Present at the Creation | 324 |
Trouble in Paradise | 338 |
Lennon Without Tears | 354 |
NEGLECT OF THE LEFT | 375 |
Our Parents Are a Little Weird | 391 |
No Hope From Miami Beach | 130 |
This Is Number One and the Fun Has Just Begun | 146 |
Football American Rules | 159 |
Going Down in Chicago | 176 |
To Off a Panther | 191 |
REFUGEES | 209 |
Lady Sings Dem Kozmic Blues | 224 |
SPECTACLE | 241 |
Only in America | 256 |
A SEASON FOR REPENTANCE | 398 |
AmerikaIt Cant Happen Here | 411 |
LIGHT AND SHADOW | 429 |
Cycle of Madness | 443 |
Necromania | 460 |
STARTING OVER | 474 |
Whited Out | 500 |
After Stonewall | 513 |
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| Title | The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994 |
| Author | Andrew Kopkind |
| Editor | Joann Wypijewski |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Verso, 1996 |
| ISBN | 1859840965, 9781859840962 |
| Length | 558 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / 20th Century |
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