The Anatomy of the Corporate State (The Greening of America 35 Years Later)

Peter Petto ppetto at ppetto.com
Tue Jul 9 07:50:22 CDT 2013


I remember tearing through Greening and the re-reading it immediately. As I recall it was filled with praise, both for the things we did well and for all of our warts.

After that it was Theodore Roszak's The Making of a Counterculture, filled with pointers to more abstruse predecessors.

   Peter++


On Jul 9, 2013, at 7:34 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> But among the overheated, overreaching, radical books of the late ’60s
> and early ’70s, The Greening of America stands out, not only for its
> sweeping ambition and meteoric popularity, but also for its winning,
> energetic style. Greening distilled much of the radical literature
> that preceded it, from Karl Marx to the beatniks and the alienated New
> York intellectuals, with a naive joy and earnestness all its own.
> 
> (and a lot more)
> 
> 
> http://davidskinner.org/2012/07/25/oldie-from-the-dec-19-2005-weekly-standard/




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