William L O'Neill

The New Left

A History

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 207mm x 135mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9780882959603
• ISBN-10: 0882959603
• Artikelnr.: 22532543

Autorenporträt

William L. O'Neil is a professor of history at Rutgers. The State University of New Brunswick, New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II, American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945-1960, and Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960's. As a professor at the University of Wisconsin from 1966 to 1971 he had many contacts with New Leftists, had his classroom taken over by them on one occasion, was threatened by a graduate student during a faculty meeting, and witnessed a riot during which students and police exchanged tear gas canisters with each other. Most contacts, however, were far more civil, involving the exchange of ideas rather than chemical agents.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword V
Preface IX
Chapter One: The Rise of SDS 1
Birth of the New Left 3
SDS Takes the Stage 7
Chapter Two: SDS: Decline and Fall 28
Chapter Three: Hippies and Yippies 45
The Counterculture 45
The Yippies 46
HUAC and The Yippies 54
The End of the Yippies 57
Chapter Four: Fadeout 60
Why the New Left Failed 66
Chapter Five: The Academic Left 79
Speech Codes 84
Multiculturalism 89
Affirmative Action 92
Sexual Harassment 100
Postmodernism 103
Conclusion 106
Bibliography Essay 11
Index 117