From Publishers Weekly
Daniels takes an evenhanded look at the social upheavals experienced in the U.S., France, Czechoslovakia, China and other countries during the 1960s, highlighting 1968, the year that witnessed the Paris May Days, the Prague Spring and the turning point in China's Cultural Revolution. Turmoil in the U.S. that year included escalating protests against the war in Vietnam, outraged reactions to the King assassination and the most divisive presidential campaign since the Civil War. Daniels ( Russia ) finds common denominators in the widespread upheavals, arguing, for instance, that the target in each was the reactionary establishment and that the goal everywhere was "equality of male and female, the old and the young, the teacher and the learner, the expert and the zealot." No goverments were toppled, and the rebellions all fell short of their most radical objectives but, as Daniels convincingly shows, each in its own way irreversibly changed national thinking and expectations.
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Review
Year of the Heroic Guerrilla is one of the first works I would recommend to anyone who is freshly coming to this topic.
--Paul Berman (
New Leader )
Daniels has written one of the best general surveys of the revolts of the 1960s...It is intriguing that Daniels predicted, before any of the recent upheavals in China or Eastern Europe had occurred, that this agenda would stir a new wave of revolutionary movement into the 1990s that would take up where the last cycle had left off, with the issues of equality in face-to-face relations, and in those surrounding the environmental crisis...
Year of the Heroic Guerrilla is a lucidly written account.
--Paul Costello (
Canadian Journal of History )
An altogether engaging analysis of what was arguably the world's most politically tumultuous year since the end of the Second World War.
--Steve Weingartner (
Booklist )
