| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

The Fourth Revolution: Transformations in American Society from the Sixties to the Present. By Robert V. Daniels. (New York: Routledge, 2006. xiv, 275 pp. Cloth, $95.00, ISBN 0–415–91077–3. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0–415–91078–1.)
Robert V. Daniels's The Fourth Revolution is an important contribution that both synthesizes a large body of literature on social movements of the 1960s and seeks to understand developments over the last thirty years, particularly the highly contentious "culture wars." Daniels uses the term "fourth revolution" broadly to describe a variety of oppositional protest movements in America since the 1960s. His account also contains a useful overview of the reactions against those developments, such as Ronald Reagan's triumph in 1980, the rise of the religious right, and various grass-roots conservative social movements.	1
Those themes have been explored extensively by scholars of recent U.S. history, but Daniels's contribution is unique because he places the fourth revolution in the broader historical context of previous revolutionary transformations in American and world history. He describes the first revolution (the religious transformations in Europe and North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the emergence of Puritanism), the second revolution (the arrival of the Enlightenment in America, culminating in the American Revolution), and the third revolution (the challenges to the dominant laissez-faire economic order of the nineteenth century, which eventually lead to the New Deal and the Great Society).	. . .

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