Volume 41, Number 18 · November 3, 1994
The Rise and Fall of an Idealist
By Alan Brinkley
Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism
by William H. Chafe
Basic Books, 556 pp., $28.00
If any one person can be said to represent the political awakening of young Americans in the 1960s, it would be Allard Lowenstein. From his undergraduate years at Chapel Hill in the 1950s to his murder in 1980 by a psychotic former protégé—from a time well before most young people became politically active to a time well after many of them had ceased to be—Lowenstein was deeply engaged in public life, constantly seeking a way, as he often put it, 'to make a difference' in the fight against racism, war, and social injustice.
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