Volume 11, Number 2 · August 1, 1968
Wild in the Stacks
By C. Vann Woodward
Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History
edited by Barton J. Bernstein
Pantheon, 364 pp., $6.95
Unlike poets and mathematicians, historians rarely break into print before their thirties. The generation of American historians now publishing their first books includes representatives from all sectors of the political spectrum. Some of the more promising exhibit no opinions that distinguish them markedly from their elders, but the few who have so far developed any sense of identity as a new generation profess some degree of leftward orientation and answer to the vague description 'New Left.' Even among these, however, the median range of opinion is really not very far left. They have no common ideology. If they have any ideas in common it is a conviction that the previous generation of American historians was wrong.
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