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Book BEYOND BERKELEY A SOURCEBOOK IN STUDENT VALUES

Download or read book BEYOND BERKELEY A SOURCEBOOK IN STUDENT VALUES written by CHRISTPHER G. KATOPE, PAUL G. ZOLBROD and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Peace with the 60s

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  • Author : David Burner
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 1400847753
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Making Peace with the 60s written by David Burner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Burner's panoramic history of the 1960s conveys the ferocity of debate and the testing of visionary hopes that still require us to make sense of the decade. He begins with the civil rights and black power movements and then turns to nuanced descriptions of Kennedy and the Cold War, the counterculture and its antecedents in the Beat Generation, the student rebellion, the poverty wars, and the liberals' war in Vietnam. As he considers each topic, Burner advances a provocative argument about how liberalism self-destructed in the 1960s. In his view, the civil rights movement took a wrong turn as it gradually came to emphasize the identity politics of race and ethnicity at the expense of the vastly more important politics of class and distribution of wealth. The expansion of the Vietnam War did force radicals to confront the most terrible mistake of American liberalism, but that they also turned against the social goals of the New Deal was destructive to all concerned. Liberals seemed to rule in politics and in the media, Burner points out, yet they failed to make adequate use of their power to advance the purposes that both liberalism and the left endorsed. And forces for social amelioration splintered into pairs of enemies, such as integrationists and black separatists, the social left and mainline liberalism, and advocates of peace and supporters of a totalitarian Hanoi. Making Peace with the 60s will fascinate baby boomers and their elders, who either joined, denounced, or tried to ignore the counterculture. It will also inform a broad audience of younger people about the famous political and literary figures of the time, the salient moments, and, above all, the powerful ideas that spawned events from the civil rights era to the Vietnam War. Finally, it will help to explain why Americans failed to make full use of the energies unleashed by one of the most remarkable decades of our history.

Book One Hundred Semesters

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  • Author : William M. Chace
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-10
  • ISBN : 1400827302
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book One Hundred Semesters written by William M. Chace and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a traditionally African-American college in Alabama, in the 1960s, to his days as a professor at Stanford and his appointment as president of two very different institutions--Wesleyan University and Emory University. Chace takes us with him through his decades in education--his expulsion from college, his boredom and confusion as a graduate student during the Free Speech movement at Berkeley, and his involvement in three contentious cases at Stanford: on tenure, curriculum, and academic freedom. When readers follow Chace on his trip to jail after he joins Stillman students in a civil rights protest, it is clear that the ideas he presents are born of experience, not preached from an ivory tower. The book brings the reader into both the classroom and the administrative office, portraying the unique importance of the former and the peculiar rituals, rewards, and difficulties of the latter. Although Chace sees much to lament about American higher education--spiraling costs, increased consumerism, overly aggressive institutional self-promotion and marketing, the corruption of intercollegiate sports, and the melancholy state of the humanities--he finds more to praise. He points in particular to its strength and vitality, suggesting that this can be sustained if higher education remains true to its purpose: providing a humane and necessary education, inside the classroom and out, for America's future generations.

Book The Whirligig of Time

Download or read book The Whirligig of Time written by Zdeněk Stříbrný and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zdenek Stribrny, an internationally respected Shakespeare scholar, was Professor of English and American Studies at Charles University, Prague, until the Russian occupation of 1968. He was reinstated after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. This volume, prefaced by a new autobiographical introduction, collects papers on Shakespeare, most of which were written originally in English, from various periods of his eventful career. Their two main themes are the role of Time and the Czech critical and theatrical response to Shakespeare, with special emphasis on the various ways in which, during an era of censorship, productions offered coded political readings of the plays. Zdenek Stribrny is Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Charles University, Prague. Lois Potter is Ned B. Allen Professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Book Readings in the Study of Leadership

Download or read book Readings in the Study of Leadership written by United States Military Academy. Office of Military Psychology and Leadership and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Long Sixties

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  • Author : Christopher B. Strain
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2016-02-25
  • ISBN : 1119150442
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book The Long Sixties written by Christopher B. Strain and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Sixties is a concise and engaging treatment of the major political, social, and cultural developments of this tumultuous period. A comprehensive yet concise overview that offers coverage of a variety of topics, from the beginnings of the Cold War shortly after World War II, through the civil rights, women's, and Chicano civil rights movements, to Watergate, an event that transpired in 1974 but capped the "Long Sixties." A detached and unprejudiced look at this turbulent decade, that is both lively and revelatory Timelines are included to help students understand how particular episodes transpired in quick succession, and how topics intertwined and overlapped Nicely complemented by Brian Ward's The 1960s: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), The Long Sixties book matches the documentary reader chapter-by-chapter in theme and periodization

Book A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area

Download or read book A Cultural History of the Radical Sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area written by Anthony Ashbolt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.

Book Aging and Society

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  • Author : Matilda White Riley
  • Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
  • Release : 1972-03-15
  • ISBN : 1610446836
  • Pages : 671 pages

Download or read book Aging and Society written by Matilda White Riley and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1972-03-15 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the first integrated effort to deal with age as a crucial variable in the social system. Of special interest to sociologists for whom the sociology of age seems destined to become a special field.

Book American Students

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  • Author : David H. Kelly
  • Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 564 pages

Download or read book American Students written by David H. Kelly and published by Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beer and Circus

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  • Author : Murray Sperber
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2000-09-20
  • ISBN : 0805038647
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Beer and Circus written by Murray Sperber and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sperber issues a no-holds-barred examination of how big-time college sports is crippling undergraduate education. He argues that money coming into universities from sports programs never makes it to academic departments and barely covers the expense of maintaining athletic programs.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1338 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Thomas Merton and the New World

Download or read book Thomas Merton and the New World written by Paul R. Dekar and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Merton still matters’, writes Paul R. Dekar about Cistercian monk Thomas Merton. Calling people to act justly, love kindness and walk humbly, Merton used his contemplative practice to see beyond what disrupts and divides us from one another to find the truth of our common humanity - unity in our creation in the image of God. In Thomas Merton and the New World, Dekar focuses primarily on two issues of concern to our current world. First, he studies Merton’s warnings of the abuse that stems from unmindful and irresponsible use of technology, and its ecological devastation. Second, he examines Merton’s thinking on racial injustice in the mid-1960s through his correspondence with his allies and contemporaries - James Baldwin, for example. Using Micah 6:8 to arrange Merton’s focus on justice, lovingkindness, and humility, with input from Merton’s dialogue with Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Rachel Carson and others, Dekar demonstrates just how prophetic and transferable Merton’s teachings remain.

Book The Christian World Liberation Front

Download or read book The Christian World Liberation Front written by Jeanne C. DeFazio and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a retrospective and model for the postmodern church for revival and reform containing actual primary source quotations from all those involved. It is a unique primary source history of Jesus Movement reflections and not just another secondary book. There is nothing like it available on this seminal, significant, and influential ministry.

Book Thomas Merton  God s Messenger on the Road towards a New World

Download or read book Thomas Merton God s Messenger on the Road towards a New World written by Paul R. Dekar and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Merton: God’s Messenger on the Road towards a New World highlights the contribution of the best-selling North American writer between the Second World War and 1968. The Cistercian monk called people to act justly, love kindness, and walk humbly. By his critique of technology, a major impediment for people to follow Jesus; by his writing on contemplative prayer; by his interfaith outreach; and through his witness against racism, war, and degradation of nature, Merton still matters. This book uses Micah 6:8 to organize Merton’s focus on justice, lovingkindness, and humility, as well as his dialogue with Rachel Carson, Ernesto Cardinal, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thich Nhat Hahn, and others.

Book Leaders  Teachers  and Learners in Academe

Download or read book Leaders Teachers and Learners in Academe written by Stanley Lehrer and published by New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts. This book was released on 1970 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Australian Left Review

Download or read book Australian Left Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Adam and His Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Nicely
  • Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Adam and His Work written by Tom Nicely and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: