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Overview
The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets--these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today. What happened to the people and principles that dominated that decade? Which leaders from those turbulent years had the most lasting effect on our lives today? How well have the principles for which those leaders fought so strongly withstood the test of time? This thought-provoking biographical dictionary allows the reader to study the leaders, both conservative and liberal, their ideals, and their enduring influence.
With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, Leaders from the 1960s includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent activists of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated only the sixties, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and activists of the era who came into prominence since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus of the entries is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. Included are extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.
Synopsis
The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets—these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today. What happened to the people and principles that dominated that decade? Which leaders from those turbulent years had the most lasting effect on our lives today? How well have the principles for which those leaders fought so strongly withstood the test of time? This thought-provoking biographical dictionary allows the reader to study the leaders, both conservative and liberal, their ideals, and their enduring influence.
With major sections on racial democracy, peace and freedom, sexuality and gender, the environment, radical culture, and visions of alternative societies, Leaders from the 1960s includes entries on a wide selection of nationally prominent activists of the 1960s. In addition to those who dominated only the sixties, the volume includes earlier activists who came into prominence in the 1960s and activists of the era who came into prominence since the 1960s. Each entry provides a biographical sketch, but the focus of the entries is on the person's basic concepts or the essence of his or her work and the public response it generated. Included are extensive bibliographies on the individuals and the period.
Library Journal
This book traces the lives of many famous-or in some eyes notorious-cultural, social, and political activists of the 1960s and provides follow-up information on their later lives. The entries (six to eight pages in length) are well written and are broken down into six chapters, including "Radical Culture," "Racial Democracy," and "Visions of Alternative Societies." Chapters open with introductory essays and selected bibligraphies; every biography concludes with a short bibliography. Most people included lean to the left of the political spectrum, and you might find some overlap with other reference works, including Bernard Johnpool's Biographical Dictionary of the American Left (Greenwood, 1986) or William McGuire and Leslie Wheeler's American Social Leaders (LJ 6/1/93). While a majority of the biographical entries are white males, the editor has made an obvious attempt to cast his net wider. The one drawback, though minor, is the uneven quality of the photographs that accompany entries. A picture of Phil Ochs in a trash can is especially unflattering, given his sad life. Otherwise, this is enthusiastically recommended for public and undergraduate libraries.-Stephen W. Green, Auraria Lib., Denver