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Class Divide - Yale '64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties (Hardcover)
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Class Divide - Yale '64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties (Hardcover)
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Members of the Yale College class of 1964-the first class to
matriculate in the 1960s-were poised to take up the positions of
leadership that typically followed an Ivy League education. Their
mission gained special urgency from the inspiration of John F.
Kennedy's presidency and the civil rights movement as it moved
north. Ultimately these men proved successful in traditional
terms-in the professions, in politics, and in philanthropy-and yet
something was different. Challenged by the issues that would define
a new era, their lives took a number of unexpected turns. Instead
of confirming the triumphal perspective they grew up with in the
years after World War II, they embraced new and often conflicting
ideas. In the process the group splintered.In Class Divide, Howard
Gillette Jr. draws particularly on more than one hundred interviews
with representative members of the Yale class of '64 to examine how
they were challenged by the issues that would define the 1960s:
civil rights, the power of the state at home and abroad, sexual
mores and personal liberty, religious faith, and social
responsibility. Among those whose life courses Gillette follows
from their formative years in college through the years after
graduation are the politicians Joe Lieberman and John Ashcroft, the
Harvard humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt, the environmental
leader Gus Speth, and the civil rights activist Stephen
Bingham.Although their Ivy League education gave them access to
positions in the national elite, the members of Yale '64
nonetheless were too divided to be part of a unified leadership
class. Try as they might, they found it impossible to shape a new
consensus to replace the one that was undone in their college years
and early adulthood.
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