Seeds of the Sixties

[Dave Monroe]

This looks promising ...

Jamison, Andrew and Ron Eyerman.
   Seeds of the Sixties.  Berkeley: U of Cal P, 1994.

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2f59n7zh/

"'The Sixties.' The powerful images conveyed by those
two words have become an enduring part of American
cultural and political history. But where did Sixties
radicalism come from? Who planted the intellectual
seeds that brought it into being? These questions are
answered with striking clarity in Andrew Jamison and
Ron Eyerman's book. The result is a combination of
history and biography that vividly portrays an entire
culture in transition. The authors focus on specific
individuals, each of whom in his or her distinctive
way carried the ideas of the 1930s into the decades
after World War II, and each of whom shared in
inventing a new kind of intellectual partisanship.
They begin with C. Wright Mills, Hannah Arendt, and
Erich Fromm and show how their work linked the 'old
left' of the Thirties to the 'new left' of the
Sixties. Lewis Mumford, Rachel Carson, and Fairfield
Osborn laid the groundwork for environmental activism;
Herbert Marcuse, Margaret Mead, and Leo Szilard
articulated opposition to the postwar
'scientific-technological state.' Alternatives to mass
culture were proposed by Allen Ginsberg, James
Baldwin, and Mary McCarthy; and Saul Alinsky, Dorothy
Day, and Martin Luther King, Jr., made politics
personal...."

Unfortunately ...

"Available online to University of California faculty,
staff, and students only."

Okay, gots me some online shoppin' to do, so ...

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