A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960sThe 1960s was not just an era of civil rights, anti-war protest, women's liberation, hippies, marijuana, and rock festivals. The untold story of the 1960s is in fact about the New Right. For young conservatives the decade was about Barry Goldwater, Ayn Rand, an important war in the fight against communism, and Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). In A Generation Divided, Rebecca Klatch examines the generation that came into political consciousness during the 1960s, telling the story of both the New Right and the New Left, and including the voices of women as well as men. The result is a riveting narrative of an extraordinary decade, of how politics became central to the identities of a generation of people, and how changes in the political landscape of the 1980s and 1990s affected this identity. |
Contents
| 17 | |
Backgrounds | 37 |
The Making of an Activist | 59 |
Traditionalists Anarchists and Radicals | 97 |
The Counterculture Left Meets Right | 134 |
The Woman Question | 158 |
Paradise Lost | 186 |
Picking up the Pieces The 1970s | 239 |
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Page 31 - We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit. When we were kids the United States was the wealthiest and strongest country in the world: the only one with the atom bomb, the least scarred by modern war, an initiator of the United Nations that we thought would distribute Western influence throughout the world.
Page 25 - Men have unrealized potential for self-cultivation, self-direction, selfunderstanding and creativity. It is this potential that we regard as crucial and to which we appeal, not to the human potentiality for violence, unreason, and submission to authority. The goal of man and society should be human independence: a concern not with...
Page 17 - Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage...
Page 25 - ... which easily unites the fragmented parts of personal history, one which openly faces problems which are troubling and unresolved; one with an intuitive awareness of possibilities, an active sense of curiosity, an ability and willingness to learn. This kind of independence does not mean egotistic individualism — the object is not to have one's way so much as it is to have a way that is one's own.
Page 28 - If we appear to seek the unattainable, as it has been said, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable.