Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Kimball, The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (2000)

Roger Kimball.
The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America.
San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Roger Kimball, Wikipedia.

Kimball's book is less about the 1960s and more about Roger Kimball's (and other right-wing authoritarians') culture war against his ideological enemies.

Readers curious about the 1960s should look elsewhere; for example, some starting points:
  • Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, revised edition, New York: Bantam Books, 1993 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com];
  • David Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s, New York: Hill and Wang, 1994 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com];
  • John Morton Blum, Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com];
  • Arthur Marwick, The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958-c.1974, London: Bloomsbury Reader, 2012 (Originally published: Oxford University Press, 1998) [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com];
  • James T. Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996 [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com].

Video:

Hudson Institute, Book Discussion on The Long March, C-SPAN, 13 September 2000.