| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 199 words from this article are provided below; about 451 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:: • Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

The New Left Revisited. Ed. by John McMillian and Paul Buhle. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003. vi, 274 pp. Cloth, $79.50, ISBN 1-56639-975-0. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-56639-976-9.)
This is an exciting anthology but a frustrating one. The fourteen contributors aim not merely to "revisit" the history of radicalism during the 1960s but to rewrite it in significant ways. With a blend of brief monographs and analytical overviews, they seek to challenge what John McMillian calls the reigning narrative of the New Left. This story—which has been told by such talented memoirists and historians as Todd Gitlin, Jim Miller, and Clayborne Carson—dwells on the rise and fall of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).	1
The essayists first refuse to separate the counterculture from the political radicalism of the period. They maintain that the larger rebellion, what Herbert Marcuse called the great refusal, had consequences more far-reaching and salutary than the earlier interpreters believed. Second, the contributors, using the methods of social history, argue that regional distinctions and gender dynamics shaped local movements more decisively than anything national leaders and organizations said and did.	. . .

There are about 451 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.