| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Book Review

A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s. By Rebecca E. Klatch. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xiv, 386 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-520-21713-6. Paper, $22.95, isbn 0-520-21714-4.)

In A Generation Divided, the sociologist Rebecca E. Klatch examines the baby boomer activists who have created what the Washington Post columnist David Broder calls "the slash and burn style" of the contemporary Republican and Democratic parties. 1

Central to Klatch's insightful analysis are the respective roles the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the conservative Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) played in campus politics in the 1960s and early 1970s. She shows, through extensive oral interviews and copious research in the archival and published primary sources, how boomer student activists came to their politics. To the credit of her press (California), Klatch permits her subjects to speak at length. She also does a fine job of establishing the historical context. 2

Although an enormous secondary literature, along with "confessional" memoirs, has underscored the ideological continuity between the depression-era and boomer generations of the Left, we know very little about the familial origins of the New Right. Perhaps not surprisingly, the experience of the Old and New Right mirrors that of the Old and New Left. . . .

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