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notes introduction 1.TaylorBranch,PartingtheWaters:AmericaintheKingYears,1953–1963(NewYork:Simon and Schuster, 1988); Clayborne Carson, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981). 2. Maurice Isserman, If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987). 3. Terry Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, Takin’ It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Morris Dickstein, Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (New York: Basic, 1977); David Farber, The Age of Great Dreams (New York: Hill and Wang, 1994); Todd Gitlin, Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (New York: Bantam, 1987); James Miller, Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987); Douglass Rossinow, Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS (New York: Random House, 1973); Irwin Unger, The Movement: A History of the American New Left, 1959–1972 (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1974). 4. Ronald Fraser, ed., 1968: A Student Generation in Revolt: An International Oral History (New York: Pantheon, 1988). 5.TerryAnderson, TheSixties(NewYork:Longman,1999);StephenA.Kent,FromSlogans to Mantras: Social Protest and Religious Conversion in the Late Vietnam Era (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2001); Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao, and Che (New York: Verso, 2002). 6. Michael Herr, Dispatches (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978). 7. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (New York: Random House, 1971). 8. Two 1970s works have especially reinforced the gulf between the 1960s and 1970s. One is Tom Wolfe’s famous essay “The Me Decade and the Fourth Great Awakening,” in Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976). The other is Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations (New York: Warner, 1979). Both are penetrating works that illuminate a good deal of American culture in the 1970s but downplay continuities with the 1960s and virtually ignore post-1960s activism. For this view, see also Edwin Schur, The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption instead of Social Change (New York: Quadrangle, 1976). Peter Clecak refutes their views in America’s Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the 60s and 70s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983). Clecak emphasizes the themes that unify the 1960s and 1970s both culturally and politically. He argues that the pursuit of personal fulfillment and social justice are themes that unify both decades. His appraisal of the 1970s is far more generous than Wolfe’s or Lasch’s. Peter Carroll shares Clecak’s more positive assessment of the 1970s in It Seemed like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1982). 262 Notes to Pages 4–7 9. The prominence of women in the antinuclear struggles of the 1970s continued the trajectory begun in the movements of the 1960s. See Sara Evans, Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left (New York: Vintage, 1979). 10. The historian Barbara Epstein called these cultural changes in the movements of the 1970sand1980s“pre-figurativepolitics”inPoliticalProtestandCulturalRevolution:Non-violent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991). Wini Breines argues the importance of community organizing in the New Left in Community and Organization in the New Left, 1962–1968: The Great Refusal (New York: Praeger, 1982). 11. On the 1960s counterculture and technology, see Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counterculture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition (1969; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995). 12. Epstein, Political Protest and Cultural Revolution. For a direct-witness account, see Harvey Wasserman, Energy War: Reports from the Front (Westport, Conn.: Hill, 1979). 13. Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001). For an account of the mass detentions of 1971, see the last chapter of Lucy Barber, Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). 14. Paul Boyer discusses the cycles of the movement against nuclear weapons in “Epilogue: From the...

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