1st Edition

Anti-American Generation

By Edgar Friedenberg Copyright 1971
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the social atti-tudes that distinguish today's youth from their predecessors, identifies the sources of these attitudes in the social experiences of today's youth, and analyzes the stereotype implied in the term "Anti-American Generation." These essays show clearly that the issue between the dissenting, primarily middle-class youth and their elders and most of the working class... Read more
1: Introduction; I; 2: Hippies in College; 3: College Live-In; 4: Students for McCarthy— What Unites Them; 5: Universities on Collision Course; 6: Why All of Us May Be Hippies Someday; 7: Hippie Morality-More Old Than New; 8: The Condemnation and Persecution of Hippies; II; 9: The Generation Gap; 10: Rocky Recordings and Rebellion; 11: Oversupply of the Young; 12: White Gangs; 13: Vietnam: Why Men Fight; 14: ROTC Retreat; 15: 'Hell,' No, We Won't Gor; 16: Notes on Contributors

Biography

Edgar Friedenberg