Save us from 60s Nostalgia (RE: Sweeney Defends Gore Endorsement

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Fri Feb 18 17:56:10 PST 2000


While we're recommending books, there's new one by Mike Kazin and Maurice Isserman on the 60's. Two guys who were there and involved, and are still involved. My interest is not in criticizing student activism today, but protecting the record from some of the breathless depictions found on LBO.

mbs

Just remembered a book by Peter Levy on The New Left and Labor (think that's the title) that might ground some the contrasting points made by Nathan and Max in some more historical data. Reading it a few years ago I remember being annoyed at some minor errors in the footnotes and bibliography. Still have a look, think it's part of the Univ. of Illinois Press series on the working class in American history.

Michael Pugliese



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