Forgot to mention that the only book that provoked yelling and shouting by a housemate of mine was by Peter Berger. "Pyramids of Sacrifice, " a critique of dependency theory and the human cost of the GPCR.
Berger was liberal in the 60's. A book of his, in dialogue with Richard John Neuhaus, who he knew through Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam, a left Christian group, circa 1970, about the New Left and the War is, "Movement and Revolution." http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/neuhaus/neuhaus_body.html
>...In the 1960s Neuhaus was an activist pastor at St. John the Evangelist Lutheran Church, whose parish extended into the largely black ghetto of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. From the pulpit, Neuhaus preached against the war and for social justice.(7) Neuhaus took his antiwar and other progressive beliefs—which he grounded in Christian theology—out of the church and into the streets. In the late 1960s Neuhaus gained national prominence as the cofounder of the Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam. Peter Berger, a sociology professor at Brooklyn College who like Neuhaus later became a neocon ideologue, joined Neuhaus on the national steering committee of the antiwar group. In 1970 Berger and Neuhaus published Movement and Revolution, a collection of essays on the progressive movement. Included in the volume was an essay by Neuhaus titled "The Thorough Revolutionary." "A revolution of consciousness, no doubt," wrote Neuhaus in his defense of the Movement, "A cultural revolution, certainly. A non-violent revolution, perhaps. An armed overthrow of the existing order, it may be necessary. Revolution for the hell of it or revolution for a new world, but revolution, Yes." (8)