The Battle For Morningside Heights [Audio Cassette]

Roger Kahn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 29, 1990

Student unrest, racism and war--these issues dominated the Vietnam era and are explored here by a witness to the events.

Roger Kahn tells the story of rebellion on a single American campus. What makes it memorable, apart from the courage and the brutality, is that it fired student uprisings throughout the nation. It is the story of a great university, Columbia, torn apart by rage. Though less obvious now, the symptoms lie just below the surface of events today.

"THE BATTLE FOR MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS is the most important book which has been written on the subject of student unrest." --Eugene McCarthy

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. (October 29, 1990)
• ISBN-10: 0736618473
• ISBN-13: 978-0736618472
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,059,345 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading, December 2, 2003

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forloveof art "Art Stempel" (River Ridge, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Battle for Morningside Heights (Audio Cassette)

Kahn's skill at capturing and conveying nuance, the highlight of his sports books, is not as evident in this effort, but it is still an interesting take on one of the better known student revolts of the 60's. Student revolt in the 60's, a phenomenon entirely apart from the "turn on, tune out" hippie movement, is a topic beyond the scope of a single volume, but the fact that both the students and administrators were still feeling their way in those days is skillfully conveyed. There is a negative review of this book on Amazon whose author seems to have an agenda beyond his or her review. One can't quibble that most Columbia students came from financially secure homes but I don't think that distinguished this skirmish from those taking place at other universities, or serves to trivialize the phenomenon at all. This book is worth the read.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eloquent and New as Tomorrow, January 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Battle For Morningside Heights (Audio Cassette)

Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who led the country out of the disaster called Vietnam, called this the finest book written on the issue of student unrest. Some anonymous character wants to use words like mastubatory and argue with the Senator. The First Amendment gives him that right. However, what Mr. Kahn does in this landmark work is focus on a troubled time that reverberates today. Kennedys and Dr. King Murdered. Universities ignoring students and jumping at governement funds to do war research. Nixon working his enemies list and warming up for Watergate. This is an American classic. It would be a shame if listeners or readers are put off from buying this great work by a bigoted anonymous postcard.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Trashy Book On Trashy People, December 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Battle For Morningside Heights (Audio Cassette)

This only interesting thing about this trite and dated account of the student revolt is that the author takes these self-indulgent kids so seriously. These self-styled "revolutionaries" came from comfortable homes and went on to yuppie lives but spent their college years engaged in self-congratulatory political masturbation. They should simply have been expelled at their first violation of the laws, and they are worth a magazine article at best, certainly not a tedious and ideologically shrill book. Grayson Kirk was right.