A hard rain fell : SDS and why it failed / David Barber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barber, David, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New Left--United States--History.

New Left.

College students--Political activity--United States--History.

College students.

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.)--History.

Students for a Democratic Society (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history-a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year later, SDS splintered into warring factions and ceased to exist. SDS\'s development and its dissolution grew directly out of the organization\'s relations with the black freedom movement, the movement against the Vietnam War, and the newly emerging struggle for women\'s liberation. For a moment, young white people could comprehend their world in new and revolutionary ways. But New Leftists did not

Contents:

Introduction : why the New Left failed

The New Left and the Black movement, 1965-1968

The New Left and the American empire, 1962-1968

The New Left and feminism, 1965-1969

The New Left starts to disintegrate

Reasserting the centrality of White radicals

Conclusion : the price of the liberation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-269) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-48509-1

9786612485091

1-60473-305-5

OCLC:

317396406