| Description |
viii, 366 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
1. The New Left: The New Left and its limits / Nathan Glazer -- Letter from the Palmer House / Renata Adler -- A word about "bourgeois civil liberties" / Irving Howe -- New Left, New Right / Irving Kristol -- 2. Intellectuals and politics: Intellectuals and just causes / Tibor Szamuely -- Intellectuals and just causes / John Osborne -- Protest and revolution against Western societies / Robert Waelder -- Ideology and civility: on the politics of the intellectual / Edward Shils -- Anti-Americanism in America / Midge Decter -- 3. Students and the university: A foolproof scenario for student revolts / John R. Searle -- To live with complexity / Franklin L. Ford -- The student drive to destruction / Louis J. Halle -- Bringing about change / Louis J. Halle -- The prospects of the academy / Sidney Hook -- Revolutionary diary / Melvin J. Lasky -- 4. Race: Black and white tragedy / James Q. Wilson -- Statement issued on July 26, 1967 by Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney M. Young, Jr. -- America's race paradox / Nathan Glazer -- Are you guilty of murdering Martin Luther King? / Michael J. Halberstam -- 5. The political system: In defense of the American party system / Edward C. Banfield -- Are political conventions undemocratic? / Herbert McCloskey -- The politics of the alienated Left: an assessment / William P. Gerberding -- The world still moves our way / Eric Sevareid -- Alienation and the American dream / Duane E. Smith. |
| Subject |
Radicalism -- United States.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Duane E., compilor.
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