| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Alexander Bloom, editor. Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now. (Viewpoints on American Culture.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 229. Cloth $39.95, paper $19.95.

Alexander Bloom, the coauthor of "Takin' It to the Streets": A Sixties Reader, has edited a new book on that era. Bloom's aim is twofold: "to dispel the myths and to try to construct both an accurate vision of the past and an understanding of its contemporary influences," and "to reestablish this sense of the 'sixties' experience" (p. 8). To do that, he has compiled a series of essays on various topics of the decade that obviously are intended to interest specialists in the era plus general readers and students. The editor's introduction is followed by ten essays on familiar themes such as civil rights, the new Left, the war at home, black student activism, counterculture, gays, and the rebirth of feminism, and a more unusual look at the Freedom Singers and the Living Theater. 1

The collection presents a positive view of the 1960s, for most of the essays are written by former activists such as Julian Bond, Wini Breines, John D'Emilio, Sara Evans, and Barry Melton. A generation later, these folks are not going to turn around and tell readers that they were wrong, that the 1960s was a horrible decade that ruined lives and destroyed America. "The 'sixties' are the era that shaped me," D'Emilio admits. "I remember those times as thrilling, exhilarating, hopeful, exuberant. The universe cracked open and revealed to me endless possibilities" (p. 209). . . .

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