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. |
Contents
DREADFUL OPTIMISM | 3 |
Not So Great Society | 14 |
The First Falling Domino | 23 |
Dreadful Optimism | 31 |
WattsWaiting for DDay | 41 |
Average American Boy | 47 |
FarOut Kids Strike a Blow | 54 |
ALL SYSTEMS FAIL | 61 |
The Boys in the Barracks | 267 |
Americas Ultimate Strategic Hamlet | 278 |
The Adamant Memory of Vietnam | 285 |
CULTURE CLASH | 293 |
The Dialectic of Disco | 308 |
The Rise and Decline of Cocaine Culture | 319 |
COLD WAR II | 333 |
OneandaHalf Strangled Cheers for the USSR | 348 |
Doctors Plot | 72 |
Battle of Newark | 82 |
The Defense of Hue | 95 |
All Fools Eve | 112 |
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 |
A Death March for the Sixties | 249 |
Only in America | 256 |
Lennon Without Tears | 354 |
NEGLECT OF THE LEFT | 375 |
Movin On Up | 383 |
Our Parents Are a Little Weird | 391 |
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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