- History, Social conditions, Radicalism, Condiciones sociales
"Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade-- a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War.
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Grave, epic, nostalgic and earnest.
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- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Todd Gitlin
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 521
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, Bantam
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780553052336
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“Groping for a sense of the zeitgeist has been an intellectual stock-in-trade since the ancient Greek thinkers, who discovered they were living in history.”
Todd Gitlin is an American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He has written widely on the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular and scholarly publications. - Wikipedia
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