A generation divided : the new left, the new right, and the 1960s / Rebecca E. Klatch.

ISBN:

9780520922341

9780585323961

Title:

A generation divided : the new left, the new right, and the 1960s / Rebecca E. Klatch.

Author:

Klatch, Rebecca E.

Personal Author:

Klatch, Rebecca E.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 386 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

The new age -- Backgrounds -- The making of an activist -- Traditionalists, anarchists, and radicals -- The counterculture: left meets right -- The woman question -- Paradise lost -- Picking up the pieces: the 1970s -- Adult lives -- Archives and primary sources -- Names and dates of interviews -- The Sharon statement.

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Subject Term:

Conservatism -- United States.

New Left -- United States.

Right and left (Political science)

Geographic Term:

United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

1999

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Summary

The 1960s was not just an era of civil rights, anti-war protest, women's liberation, hippies, marijuana, and rock festivals. The untold story of the 1960s is in fact about the New Right. For young conservatives the decade was about Barry Goldwater, Ayn Rand, an important war in the fight against communism, and Young Americans for Freedom (YAF). In A Generation Divided , Rebecca Klatch examines the generation that came into political consciousness during the 1960s, telling the story of both the New Right and the New Left, and including the voices of women as well as men. The result is a riveting narrative of an extraordinary decade, of how politics became central to the identities of a generation of people, and how changes in the political landscape of the 1980s and 1990s affected this identity.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.

The 1960s was not just an era of civil rights, anti-war protest, women's liberation, hippies, marijuana, and rock festivals. The untold story of the 1960s is in fact about the New Right. For young conservatives the decade was about Barry Goldwater, Ayn Ra

Author Notes

Klatch Rebecca E. :

Rebecca E. Klatch is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Women of the New Right (1987).

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

After interviewing 74 former activists, Klatch compares the members of a New Left organization, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and a New Right group, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), both of which were founded in 1960. Within YAF, Klatch distinguishes between a libertarian minority, who had much in common with SDS, and a traditionalist majority, who did not. Many of the leftists lived in poverty, got beaten up by police, and went to jail. When they got older, they went into education or social service; they often did not make much money, yet felt guilty about living too easily. The libertarians had similar experiences, except they did not feel bad about making money and living a good life. The traditionalists were the opposite of SDS. In YAF they worked in comfortable offices and faced no bodily hardship or harm. They supported the Vietnam war by staging demonstrations but not by joining the army. Eventually they went into politics and government, which they now largely control, except for some women who became full-time homemakers. All of them are doing well financially. Thus the traditionalists got the money and the power, leaving the leftists and the libertarians with nothing but a place in the history books. All levels. J. A. Hijiya; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth