naturally, i'd be in! need to order it from the library.
At 10:40 PM 1/26/2012, Sean Andrews wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 18:25, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Anyone who wants to engage in the c oming struggles triggered by
> Wisconsin &
> > expanded by OWS will have read Ted Morgan's book or he/she is not
> serious in
> > his/her claimed political intentions.
> >
> > Any one who refers to 'the '60s' even in casual dinner-table chat without
> > having read Ted Morgan's book is proliferating nonsense (often in its most
> > vicious form of half-truths).
>
>I feel a gauntlet has been laid. How long does everyone need to get
>this book? Carrol says we must read it to have ANY further
>conversation about the 60s. I have been concentrating (when I have
>time) on reading about the 70s as that's the decade I was born; but
>most all of my ideology is rooted in the supposed dynamics of the
>decade before. We are at an impasse and the only solution is a book
>club. We can read slow so everyone has time...whaddaya say?
>
>I have it here...bought it with my Xmas gift certificate after
>Carrol's continued recommendation (thank you by the way!): It's 13
>chapters, 330 pages (exclusive notes, index, etc.), chapters about 20
>pages (except ch. 7 is a doozy at 50pp.) each. A chapter every week
>or two. Could be fun. It must mean something that it works out to 6
>months at that rate.
>
>Or maybe I just haven't had enough to drink tonight. I'm probably
>gonna read it either way. If anybody else wants to do so as well pipe
>in.
>
>sean
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