Student Revolution: A Global Confrontation

By Joseph A. Califano Jr.

Book Overview

'It is the Italian students who have characterized the student revolution as a global confrontation. They see it as global in two aspects: geographically and ideologically, a world-wide attack on the moral values of modern society and on the corrupt and non- responsive institutions of the establishment.'Mr. Califano discusses perceptively the profound crisis of belief through which the young are now struggling. His book is a plea for recognition of that crisis by the establishment, for realization that there are legitimate student complaints about the universities and about society, for an end to the hypocrisy on both sides and to the mutual suspicion that has led students and adults to their present state of hostility.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393053911
• ISBN13: 9780393053913
• Release Date: November 1969
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

An Interesting Find

I was lucky enough to come accross this book at a library book sale, and it was a good find. Califano gives a brief overview of the turmoil surrounding S.D.S. and the student uprisings at universities in the late sixties. Part of the focus is on Berkley, but the book also covers western european unversities in some detail. Califano's portrayal is from an outsider's perspective (he was not involved in the movement), but he is very sympathetic. Even where he disagrees with some individual causes the students brought up in their protests, he recognizes that if the students are in turmoil then there must be some very real problem underneath the surface.