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Left Turn, Right Turn: Legacies of the 1960s

William Berman's America's Right Turn describes the counterattack by American conservatives against the insurgencies associated with the civil rights, antiwar, feminist, and countercultural movements that David Farber describes in The Age of Great Dreams. Both books are thus grounded in the seismic upheavals of the 1960s. Berman's rightward turn begins with the Goldwater crusade of 1964, and Farber's story of the 1960s reaches into the early 1970s. Both books are synthetic interpretations of recent American history commissioned by series editors to reach a nonspecialist audience. The bibliographic essays discuss the most useful secondary literature, but there are no footnotes (unfortunately, especially for The Age of Great Dreams, there are no illustrations as well). Farber's book is part of Eric Foner's American Century series, Berman's is in Stanley Kutler's American Moment series. David Farber, a 1979 graduate of the University of Michigan, did not live through the 1960s as an adult. Unlike such students of the 1960s as William Chafe, David Chalmers, Allen Matusow, Todd Gitlin, William O'Neill, or myself-who were born before World War II and whose interpretations have been refracted through powerful prisms of memory-Farber speaks for a successor generation. A member of the history faculty at Barnard College with a Ph.D. from Chicago (1985), he is the author of Chicago '68 (1988) and coauthor of The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii (1992). In Farber's view, the explosive events of the 1960s were an outgrowth of tensions that had been building since the Great Depression, when the nation's "rapidly developing, consumer-based, expert-oriented, nationally managed and internationally integrated economic and political system" brought under