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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Ben AggerPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.385kg ISBN: 9781594516917ISBN 10: 159451691 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 30 June 2009 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews[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. It's still an ongoing and viable living practice in the U.S. and in other parts of the world. -Richard Flacks I don't talk about myself as a Leftist, because we're not a factor. We are not a political entity. I'm a union activist, I'm an environmental activist, a peace activist, but I wouldn't say there is a Left. -Mark Rudd Obama's campaign was a movement campaign, an insurgency-in large measure the product of a popular mobilization, passionate and well-organized, cross-demographic, the best of amateur politics harnessed to professional party intelligence. -Todd Gitlin The extent to which the Left is able to ... hold Barack Obama accountable to a peace and justice agenda is the extent to which we move closer to a more democratic society and a more peaceful global existence. -Fran Beal The main thing I took from Camus was the idea that in this struggle for human betterment you had to walk a fine line so that you were neither a victim nor an executioner. And that, really, was very helpful going through all of the different twists and turns of the movement in the sixties. -Robert Moses [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. It's still an ongoing and viable living practice in the U.S. and in other parts of the world. -Richard Flacks I don't talk about myself as a Leftist, because we're not a factor. We are not a political entity. I'm a union activist, I'm an environmental activist, a peace activist, but I wouldn't say there is a Left. -Mark Rudd Obama's campaign was a movement campaign, an insurgency-in large measure the product of a popular mobilization, passionate and well-organized, cross-demographic, the best of amateur politics harnessed to professional party intelligence. -Todd Gitlin The extent to which the Left is able to ... hold Barack Obama accountable to a peace and justice agenda is the extent to which we move closer to a more democratic society and a more peaceful global existence. -Fran Beal The main thing I took from Camus was the idea that in this struggle for human betterment you had to walk a fine line so that you were neither a victim nor an executioner. And that, really, was very helpful going through all of the different twists and turns of the movement in the sixties. -Robert Moses Author InformationBen Agger is the author of many previous books on Media and Critical Theory, including Postponing the Postmodern: Sociological Practices, Selves, and Theories (2002). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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