Intellectuals in Action: The Origins of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970

by Kevin Mattson

Born in 1966' a generation removed from the counterculture' Kevin Mattson came of political age in the conservative Reagan era. In an effort to understand contemporary political ambivalence and the plight of radicalism today' Mattson looks back to the ideas that informed the protest' social movements' and activism of the 1960s.

To accomplish its historical reconstruction' the book combines traditional intellectual biography--including thorough...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027102206X
• ISBN13: 9780271022062
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 8.7"