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Put Your Bodies Upon The Wheels - Student Revolt in the 1960s (Paperback)
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Put Your Bodies Upon The Wheels - Student Revolt in the 1960s (Paperback)
Series: American Ways
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Loot Price R311
Discovery Miles 3 110
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What began at colleges in the sixties as a rejection of parental
authority and the Vietnam War rapidly evolved into a social
movement, one with lasting influences in diverse areas of American
life. In this powerful narrative analysis of the sixties
revolution, Kenneth Heineman explores the ideas that were at the
root of student protest and shows how campus unrest polarized
American politics, dividing the nation along class and cultural
lines. As anti-Communist and Great Society Democrats lost control
of the Vietnam War and the unrest in America's inner cities,
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the chief organization of
the campus-based New Left, gained strength, ending the decade with
100,000 members. From political protest, SDS and its faculty and
intellectual allies moved to violent confrontation with university
and government officials. Sit-ins, building takeovers, riots, and
strikes hit more than 300 of the nation's 2,000 campuses in the
1960s. Between January 1969 and April 1970, young radicals bombed
5,000 police stations, corporate offices, military facilities, and
campus buildings. Twenty-six thousand students were arrested and
thousands injured or expelled while engaged in protest activities.
Meanwhile 57,000 youths, many of whom lacked the financial means to
attend college and secure draft deferments, died in Vietnam.
Against a backdrop of student protest, the campus drug culture
blossomed. In Put Your Bodies Upon the Wheels (a quote from Free
Speech leader Mario Savio), Mr. Heineman plays no favorites in
indicting misguided ideas and actions on both left and right. While
his account may make us wonder what happened to the nation's common
sense in those years, his assessment of the causes and consequences
of the sixties revolt is an important contribution to the history
of a turbulent decade.
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