The Long March

by Kimball, Roger

• ISBN13: 9781893554306
• ISBN10: 1893554309
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
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Summary

Roger Kimball shows how the 'cultural revolution' of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and in our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms of attitudes toward self and country, sex and drugs, and manners and morality. Believing that this dramatic change "cannot be understood apart from the seductive personalities who articulated its goals", he intersperses his argument with incisive portraits of the life and thought of Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Susan Sontag, Eldridge Cleaver and other 'cultural revolutionaries' who made their mark. For all that has been written about the counterculture, until now there has not been a chronicle of how this revolutionary movement succeeded and how its ideas helped provoke today's 'culture wars'. This book fills this gap with a compelling and well-informed narrative that is sure to provoke discussion and debate.

Author Biography

Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion. He is author and editor of several books on art and politics

Table of Contents

Introduction: What is a Cultural Revolution?	3	(34)
A Gospel of Emancipation	37	(24)
Norman Mailer's American Dream	61	(20)
Susan Sontag & the New Sensibility	81	(20)
The Liberal Capitulation	101	(26)
The Politics of Delegitimation	127	(18)
The Marriage of Marx & Freud	145	(28)
The Greening of America	173	(20)
The Project of Rejuvenilization	193	(18)
Eldridge Cleaver's Serial Extremism	211	(14)
A Nostalgia for Molotovs	225	(22)
What the Sixties Wrought	247	(36)
Acknowledgments	283	(2)
Notes	285	(30)
Index	315