The Greening of America

by Charles A. Reich

Book Overview

The 25th Anniversary of the Groundbreaking Classic. "If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today....I am now more convinced than ever... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553067672
• ISBN13: 9780553067675
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Bantam
• Length: 433 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A lost classic

I bought this in a second-hand bookshop.. the owner was pleased that I had picked it out.. like it was a lost gem. "That book sold loads when it came out!" he said... But why? The Green of America is a relevatory exposition of the state of affairs of modern industrial capitalism while riding the crest of social resistance in the 1960's (feminism, black liberation, educational upheaval). Compared to this Alvin Toffler's the Third Wave is doctored, ignorant drivel. Reich's narrative sticks solidly to material analysis and recognition of what really powers social change - social conditions (AKA class struggle or dynamics)....Even though he doesn't reference Marx much at all. Reich has taken gloomy Marcuse's assessment of consumer society and shows what modern life will really engender. Full marks for old Reich.. desperately needs reprinting!

Amazing

This book is dead-on in both its diagnosis and prescription. It trashes both the liberals and conservatives and gets right to the heart of the matter. If you can get past the hippy fashions of the day and delve into the more substantive issues of consciousness, you'll see what a crucial period that time was. Reading this book 30 years on, that the hippy revolution failed and that we are faced with an even worse social situation in some ways are sad facts. Nonetheless, there is hope. Everybody should read this book.

The Greening of America was my bible!

I am looking for a copy--I'm so sad that I can't find one. Reich describes so well, the youth culture of that era. Now in my 50's I'd like to revisit the thinking of that time. It is a unique piece of social history.

A rare insight into the collegiate Sixties culture

A brilliant and rare look at the Vietnam War era's culture at American colleges during the Sixties. It seems that all chronicles of the Sixties were written by authors that never really lived within the culture. With all these media cliches of that era, this story would never seem to surface ...and yet Reich captures this rare subculture as it REALLY existed. His analysis of previous American history is also ingenious and thought provoking. While his prediction for the future of this culture seem naive, his report still causes one to wonder: what are our full range of cultural choices?