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The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage Paperback – July 1, 1993

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Say “the Sixties” and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world—either through music, drugs, and universal love or by “putting their bodies on the line” against injustice and war.

Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at  the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade—a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam war. Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation on all its glory and tragedy.

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The author was elected president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963, and he brings an insider's perspective to bear on the turbulent whirl of political, social, and sexual rebellion we now call "the sixties." Gitlin does a nice job of integrating his first-person recollections with a broader history that ranges from the roots of 1960s revolt in 1950s affluence and complacency to the movement's apocalyptic collapse in the early 1970s--a victim of its own excesses as well as governmental persecution. His lucid summary of the complex strands that intertwined to form the counterculture is essential basic reading for those who don't know the difference between the Diggers and the Yippies. --Wendy Smith

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"Say "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world--either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting their bodies on the line" against injustice and war.

Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade--a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam war. Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation on all its glory and tragedy.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0553372122
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam; Revised edition (July 1, 1993)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780553372120
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553372120
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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I've published fifteen books, including, most recently, Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street; The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election (with Liel Leibovitz); The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals; other titles include The Intellectuals and the Flag; Letters to a Young Activist; Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives; The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars; The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage; Inside Prime Time; The Whole World Is Watching; Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago (co-author); three novels, Undying, Sacrifice and The Murder of Albert Einstein; and a book of poetry, Busy Being Born. These books have been translated into Japanese, Korean, Chinese, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. I also edited Watching Television and Campfires of the Resistance.

I've contributed to many books and published widely in general periodicals (The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Boston Globe, Dissent, The New Republic, The Nation, Wilson Quarterly, Harper's, American Journalism Review, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Observer, The American Prospect, et al.), online magazines (salon.com, tnr.com, prospect.org, openDemocracy.net, foreignpolicy.com), as well as scholarly journals. I'm on the editorial board of Dissent.

In 2000, Sacrifice won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for books on Jewish themes. The Sixties and The Twilight of Common Dreams were Notable Books in the New York Times Book Review. Inside Prime Time received the nonfiction award of the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association; The Sixties was a finalist for that award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.

I hold degrees from Harvard University (B. A., mathematics), the University of Michigan (M. S., political science), and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph. D., sociology). I was the third president of Students for a Democratic Society, in 1963-64, and coordinator of the SDS Peace Research and Education Project in 1964-65, during which time he helped organize the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War and the first American demonstrations against corporate aid to the apartheid regime in South Africa. During 1968-69, I was an editor and writer for the San Francisco Express Times, and through 1970 wrote widely for the underground press. In 2003-06, I was a member of the Board of Directors of Greenpeace USA.

I'm a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph. D. program in Communications at Columbia University. Earlier, I was for sixteen years a professor of sociology and director of the mass communications program at the University of California, Berkeley, and then for seven years a professor of culture, journalism and sociology at New York University. During 1994-95, I held the chair in American Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. I've been a resident at the Bellagio Study Center in Italy and the Djerassi Foundation in Woodside, California, a Bosch Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin, a fellow at the Media Studies Center in New York, and a visiting professor at Yale University, the University of Oslo, the University of Toronto, East China Normal University in Shanghai, the Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis in Tunisia, and the Université de Neuchatel in Switzerland.

I lecture frequently on culture and politics in the United States and abroad (Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Greece, Turkey, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, Mexico, Morocco, Switzerland). I've appeared on many National Public Radio programs including Fresh Air as well as PBS, ABC, CBS and CNN. I lives in New York City with my wife, Laurel Cook.

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Written by a man who was a partcipant and leader of the SDS
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Written by a man who was a partcipant and leader of the SDS
Todd Gitlin was in the 60's protest movement from the beginning and was later president of the SDS.He takes a pragmatic overview as well as a personal one in this history starting from the end of the 50's and ending in the beginning of the 70's.As a man who lived through it as a teen and baby boomer and as a Vietnam Vet, I would say it is very accurate and insightfull.As with many progressive political movements, the new Left splintered and self destructed.Also, the Goverenment of Nixon, the CIA and the FBI did their very best in infiltrate and destroy it from within.In the case of the Black Panthers, they assassinated the leaders and in the case of 1968's Day of Rage they crushed it with over 40,000 troops, cops and agent provocateurs/spies.But, at the time, it was a powerfull social force and in 1968, there truly was Revolution in the air.He explains very well how the Protest and anti War movement started with the civil rights movement and the SNCC.If You like history and you want to understand the rise and fall of the New Left and the only national political force at that time: the Students for a Democratic Society, then this is the best chronicle I know of.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2012
Todd Gitlin's account of the sixties is part history, part autobiography. As a sometime president of SDS Gitlin was fully immersed in the actions of that period and discusses them with an intensity and level of specificity that most later historians would not be able to muster. At the same time, Gitlin is one of the country's premier sociologists dealing with media, culture and life as lived and experienced.

He is scrupulously fair--fair to his own principles and fair to his own experiences, but equally fair with regard to reality. He does not whitewash the sixties; he chronicles them. He does so with a clear eye for their idealism and their earnestness as well as their excess. He sees their successes and he sees their long-term deleterious effects.

Basically, the story is a simple one. The sixties' political movements worked in two directions: to help others and to free the self. The former was much more successful than the latter. The former now enjoys widespread support (for black civil rights and women's rights in particular). The protests against the war and the manner in which the war was justified and prosecuted are a more complex issue that continues to be divisive. The expansion of the space for the self, on the other hand, is more subject to criticism, particularly in the effects which Gitlin itemizes--the ravages of drugs, challenges to family commitment, out of wedlock births, grade inflation, and so on.

The book is long, as it needs to be, but it is beautifully written. The style is paratactic and additive, breathlessly listing events, names, issues, lifestyles, successes and ravages. A number of sociologists write well, but few as well as Gitlin. He is also a novelist. Crime readers who have not read his novel, The Murder of Albert Einstein, have missed a work of great skill.

The sixties are a bittersweet subject, mostly sweet for some, mostly bitter for others, but they must be seen in all of their facets. Most of all, they were a cultural experience and Gitlin is particularly well positioned to describe how they felt. He does so with both urgency and immediacy as well as a mature eye.

This is a very important book.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2019
What a decade, the music, the politics, the Vietnam War, the sds, weathermen, all the other groups that tried to live through and understand the 60's. Excellent book especially for those of us who love social history
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Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2014
The title of the book suggested a broader assessment of the sixties which is why I chose it. It does provide an interesting history of the Students For A Democratic Society (SDS) and its relationship to the events and attitudes of the era. As I began reading, I thought it was going to be either an apology or a defense; it didn't seem to be either. Instead it was a solid descriptive by an insider. As someone who "came of age" during the sixties and who was on the fringes of "the movement," the book provided a reminder of what many of us wanted to accomplish but in the long run didn't.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2022
Gitlin' s come closer to describing what things were like--or at least how they seemed to me--back then than anyone else I've read.
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2013
There is an old curse which goes, "May you live in interesting times." For many of the "over 30" generation that era was "interesting," while for the rest of us, it was scary and exhilarating, all at the same time. Youthful camaraderie was nationwide, safe enough to hitchhike across country and join a party with total strangers. Maybe it was the stream of viewings of high school friends as they lay in their caskets or the realization of one's own mortality, but for a draft deferment, but for a high draft lottery number, which caused this feeling. Maybe it was our music with its poetic messages, different from the dogmatic and silencing demands of the adults. Even for a while, Black and White kids were arm in arm.
As an activist "during the day," graduating from college in 1971, I enjoyed Mr.Gitlin's observations. His book at its best when Gitlin steps back and gives both a personal and academic view of how events unfolded, with analysis. He is most tedious when he brags about his Harvard days, his committee work, and stretching his importance in guiding a movement that could not be guided, like a granddad telling stories on how he won the war.
In any respect, although a bit long, with a bit too small print (Okay, Im getting older.), it is worth a read. Peace Brother!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2022
I plan to read this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2016
Came on time and everything went well. Shipping was fast and I had no issues here.
Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2017
College book pick by college professor I had to get.

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Barbara Steele
5.0 out of 5 stars La bible sur les Sixties aux USA
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Absolument passionnant, une étude et une analyse brillante ! La bible des Sixties aux USA. Il est fort dommage que seules les personnes lisant comme moi la langue de Shakespeare puissent avoir accès à cette mine d'or... Et c'est malheureusement le cas pour beaucoup de livres et d'études en anglais...
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Reviewed in France on May 20, 2012
Bon angle d'entrée sur cette période foisonnante, lecture intéressante et infos détaillées. L'auteur nous permet d'entrer véritablement dans son expérience personnelle et même si c'est parfois un peu laborieux, à l'issue de la lecture, le lecteur ressort enrichi, ça c'est sûr.
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