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On the cusp : the Yale College class of 1960 and a world on the verge of change / Daniel Horowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horowitz, Daniel, 1938- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-.
- Horowitz, Daniel.
- Yale University--Students--Biography.
- Yale University.
- Yale College (1887- ). Class of 1960--Biography.
- Yale College (1887- ).
- Jewish college students--Connecticut--New Haven--Biography.
- Jewish college students.
- College students--Connecticut--New Haven--Biography.
- College students.
- Students--United States--Conduct of life.
- Students.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How did the 1950s become "The Sixties"?This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitz's On the Cusp.Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics of social and political change through the experiences of a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort.
- Contents:
- Think Yiddish
- Dress British
- In White America
- Africa
- Becoming an academic man
- Recasting gender in a masculine world
- Political engagement in an apolitical world
- It all comes together
- Postpartum politics
- Looking backward.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-367-0
- OCLC:
- 919384613
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