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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Paul Lyons. The People of this Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2004. Pp. 279. $39.95.
In recent years, a number of local studies of 1960s-era activism have been published. Several of them have sought to render a comprehensive picture of the wide-ranging tumult that swept across communities throughout the United States during that period, using local histories to take cross-sections of American society in the 1960s. The authors of these studies (such as Rusty Monhollan and Mary Ann Wynkoop), following the examples set by William Rorabaugh in Berkeley at War: The 1960s (1989) and, to some extent, by David Farber in Chicago '68 (1988), have included separate chapters dealing with a now-familiar series of 1960s movements. Other local 1960s studies (by authors such as Beth Bailey, Kenneth Heineman, and this reviewer) have sought to record more detailed histories of individual political movements in specific places. Paul Lyons now adds his study of radicalism in Philadelphia to the second of these types of studies.	1
Lyons is well situated to accomplish this task. He is the author of Philadelphia Communists: 1936–1956 (1982), focusing on the same urban environment that he studies here, and New Left, New Right, and the Legacy of the Sixties (1996). Clearly, Lyons knows the history of the Philadelphia area and the history of the twentieth-century left, both locally and nationally, quite well. He displays this knowledge in his new book and shows considerable interpretive sensitivity, particularly when discussing the interplay of old left veterans and newcomers in areas of activity such as the Philadelphia peace movement during the 1960s.	. . .

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