{"product_id":"the-emerging-order-9780399123191","title":"The Emerging Order","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1960s represented a giant Wood-stock of doomsaying \" writes this wry critic. I am quite sure that some of the people who were so eminently quotable in the Sixties would just as soon forget what they said or wrote. The greatest lesson in responsibility  however  is to be held responsible for ones statements.\" All the prophets of political  social and ecological doom get their turn to squirm. Metropolitan newspapers  the campus and underground press  college professors  public officials - they all had their fling in this orgy of rhetorical Dave Dellinger (and so many others)  \"who left prophecies of doom wherever he could find a paying college audience.\" ? The New York Times  whose \"Op Ed page alone was loaded with so many predictions of gloom for the future that one must almost feel  as Keats put it  half in love with easeful death. The Wandervogel  those \"sad-faced  humorless children of the urban middle class\" who \"are really incipient George Apleys of the future. One can see them now - telling their children about those hard days of the 1960s.\" Eugene McCarthy  whose 1960 definition of a liberal (as a person given to \"more subtle or sophisticated explanations\") almost immediately became outdated. \"There was  to play upon the words of Eugene McCarthy  hardly anything sophisticated about the attempts to blow up the Statue of Liberty  the Liberty Bell  the Capitol in Washington  or hundreds of university structures throughout the land.\" Mr. Hicken dips into our history  finds striking similarities between the Jacksonian period and the 1960 communal experiments  womens lib  civil rights  penal reform  religious exoticism  college riots  ecology  even \"natural food\" movements. He brings to light the real causes of Sixties tumult  rescuing Vietnam from its convenient role as scapegoat. The author concludes that both liberals and radicals must share the blame for the excesses of the Sixties  and shows why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67913091973173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0399123199","price":101.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780399123191.jpg?v=1793938476","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-emerging-order-9780399123191","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}