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Author Berman, Paul, 1949-

Title A tale of two utopias : the political journey of the generation of 1968 / Paul Berman.

Imprint New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c1996.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.09 B456t 1996    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 351 p. ; 20 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-343) and index.
Contents The dream of a new society -- The moral history of the Baby Boom generation -- The gay awakening -- Zappa and Havel -- A backward glance at the end of history.
Summary A Tale of Two Utopias is the story of the generation of 1968 - not the whole story, (which could never squeeze into a single book), but four representative episodes. It is the story of student radicalism in the years around 1968 - in America and around the world. The story of gay liberation and of modern identity politics - from their origins in the American New Left to the present. The story of the '68ers in the Eastern bloc - and how in 1989, in Czechoslovakia, the '68ers overthrew Communism. And it is the story of the thinkers in America and in France who have lived through these events, the leftism of 1968 and the liberal revolutions that broke out in 1989 - and have debated their meaning. Andre Glucksmann and the New Philosophers of Paris, Tom Hayden and Students for a Democratic Society, the Gay Liberation Front, Frank Zappa, Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution, Francis Fukuyama and his "End of History" - those are the faces and figures of A Tale of Two Utopias.
Subject Social history -- 1960-1970.
Social history -- 1970-
Nineteen sixties.
Liberalism.
Radicalism.
Gay liberation movement.
Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government -- 1968-1989.
History -- Philosophy.
ISBN 0393039277
9780393039276

 
    
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