When Roots of Radicalism first appeared. Nathan Glazer noted
"this is a major work on the relationship between radical politics
and psychological development." He went on to predict "no one will
be able to write about the left and radicalism without taking it
into account." Now finally available in a paperback edition, with a
new introduction, the reader can evaluate just how prescient the
authors are in their review of the student radical movement.
Replete with interviews of radical activists, their provocative
book paints a disturbing picture.
The book raises critical questions about much previous social
science research and ultimately about the reason an entire
generation of Americans was so infatuated with the radical
mystique. Robert A. Nisbet called the book "an extraordinarily
skilled fusion of historical and psychological approaches to one of
the most explosive decades in American social history." Robert E.
Lane added "it will be prudent to read Rothman and Lichter along
with our well worn copies of Keniston and Fromm." Writing in
Political Psychology, Dan E. Thomas argued "the book] is arguably
the most important and definitely the most provocative book in the
field of personality and politics to have appeared in the past
several years." Recently, in Forbes. Peter Brimelow referred to
Roots of Radicalism as "Rothman's main achievement as a political
scientist...his definitive study of the 1960s New Left." In the new
introduction, the authors review the initial reception of Roots of
Radicalism and its subsequent treatment. They also review the major
literature on the causes, course, and consequences of the student
movement of the 1960s which has appeared since the publication of
the book. Finally, they update their own analysis.
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