Sixties at 40 Leaders and Activists Remember and Look Forward [Hardcover]

Based on recent interviews, this unique sixties book brings together the voices of the Left leaders who spawned the sixties movements. Many remain activists today, and experience and the passage of time allow them to transcend nostalgia to form more realistic perspectives on past, present, and future. They discuss the civil rights and antiwar movements, the political outcome of the sixties, patriotism, terror, and the role of young people in the future. Important gains were made during the sixties, but there were many setbacks, too, that influence today's voters, leaders, candidates, and our day-to-day realities. The sixties of this book are not simply a sweet memory of marijuana and album rock; there were many casualties, including innocence and youthful idealism. Agger concludes with reflections on the possibilities of a next Left, which was already faintly visible in young people's massive support of Obama's presidential candidacy.Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1[A] useful and different book offering insights on the storied decade of the 1960s. & A narrative timeline provides a valuable overview of people and events. & an invigorating and hopeful book.
Library Journal

From The Sixties at 40:
I was not governed completely by ideology, I was governed by experience ... and my experiences were contradictory.
Tom Hayden

To a very great extent I would call the project of the sixties a democratization project. Its still an ongoing and viable living practice in the U.S. and in other parts of the world.
Richard Flacks

I dont talk about myself as a Leftist, because were not a factor. We are not a political entity. Im a union activist, Im an environmental activist, a peace activist, but I wouldnt say there is a Left.
Mark Rudd

Obamas campaign was a movement campaign, an insurgencyin large measure the product of a popular mobilization, passionate and well-organized, cl³%