AMERICAN SOCIETY SINCE 1945

by William L.--Ed. O'Neill ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, 1969

Aspects of social life in this, the third collection of articles from the Sunday Magazine. The first section, a miscellany, touches on the religious revival and Levittown, femininism and the intellectual establishment. The other four parts deal with various minority groups--undergraduates and bohemians, the Movement, political fringes, and end with a conversation of the intelligentsia in which Herbert Marcuse, the radicals' philosopher, has the last word. O'Neill provides headnotes and an introduction and his general guideline is that following the war, unexpected prosperity yielded to careful conformity, the ""thaw"" of the early sixties and ""Finally, of course. . . a counterrevolution."" The selections which uphold his view range from George Barrett's ""Close-Up of the Birchers' Founder"" to Joan Didion on Joan Baez' School for Nonviolence.

Pub Date: April 1, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Quadrangle/The New York Times

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1969

Categories: NONFICTION