Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts & The 60s: Years Of Hope - Comparison
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Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts & The 60s: Years of Hope -
The preface to Peter Collier and David Horowitz's Destructive
Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties and the introduction to Todd
Gitlin's The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage both try to explain the
authors' reasons for ....
Middle of paper
.... describe a "summary
moment" (Collier and Horowitz 11) of the decade. This "moment" involves a
revolutionary group known as the Black Panther Party. The authors seem to
criticize this group by commenting on their appearances and their actions
in certain events. For example, at a cocktail party, one Panther spit in
the face of an army draftee because he brought a black friend from the army
home while on leave. When the Panther returned to the party, the people
present pretended not to notice th ....
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