Volume 17, Number 6 · October 21, 1971
Can the Left Rise Again?
By Christopher Lasch
The Radical Probe: The Logic of Student Rebellion
by Michael W. Miles
Atheneum, 311 pp., $7.95
Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics
by Michael Walzer
Quadrangle, 128 pp., $1.95 (paper)
Rules for Radicals
by Saul D. Alinsky
Random House, 196 pp., $6.95
Reveille for Radicals
by Saul D. Alinsky
Vintage, 235 pp., $1.65 (paper)
After the Revolution? Authority in a Good Society
by Robert A. Dahl
Yale, 171 pp., $2.45 (paper)
An interminable war in Indochina; the revolutionary movement elsewhere in disarray; the American left fragmented and driven onto the defensive; Nixon acting belatedly but with apparent success to disarm his opponents; public services in decline; the quality of public discussion lower than ever; demoralization and drift on every side—the political scene has seldom looked more dreary. Only three years ago the glacial rigidity of American politics appeared to be breaking up. Even habitual pessimists proclaimed a 'great thaw.' Columbia, Paris, the dumping of Johnson seemed so many proofs that the diverse strands making up the new left had finally coalesced as a movement, a political force.
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