Volume 34, Number 16 · October 22, 1987
Dreams of the Sixties
By Alan Brinkley
If I had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left
by Maurice Isserman
Basic Books, 259 pp., $18.95
'Democracy is in the Streets': From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
by James Miller
Simon and Schuster, 431 pp., $19.95
For a brief moment in the 1960s, a small group of student radicals managed to do what the American left had largely failed to achieve in almost a century of trying: create a genuine mass movement. It was short-lived, to be sure, and soon collapsed on itself in a paroxysm of frustration, nihilism, and violence. But for a while before the end, it penetrated deeply into the heart of American culture, with lasting effects, and profoundly shook (although it failed to transform) the American political system.
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