Record details

• ISBN: 9781400064571
• ISBN: 1400064570
• Physical Description: xxi, 662 pages : illustrations ; cm
• Edition: 1st edition
• Publisher: New York : Random House, [2007]
• Copyright: ©2007

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: what was that all about? Part one: Something's happening here. A loss of innocence -- He had a dream: Representative John Lewis and Julian Bond; Reverend Andrew Young; Tom Turnipseed; Reverend Thomas Gilmore -- The fracture of 1968: the noisy masses vs. the silent majority: Jeff Greenfield and Sam Brown; Mayor Richard M. Daley and William Daley; Pat Buchanan -- A place called Vietnam: we had to destroy the village: Captain Gene Kimmel and Dr. Les Gelb; Married to Vietnam: Tom and Nellie Coakley; Oh, Canada: Jeffry House; Semper fi: Sen. James Webb, Mike "Mac" McGarvey, and James Fallows -- A woman's place: Nora Ephron; Gloria Steinem; Joan Growe; Muriel Kraszewski; Dr. Judith Rodin; Carla Hills and Joan Didion; Lissa Muscatine -- Something's happening here: Dr. David Smith; Judy Collins; Arlo Guthrie and Tim Russert; Jann Wenner; Kris Kristofferson; Berry Gordy; Woody Miller -- Part two: Aftershocks: consequences, intended and otherwise. A dream fulfilled and a dream deferred: Charlene Stimley Priester and Ouida Barnett Atkins; Stan Sanders; Dr. Shelby Steele; Dr. Cleveland Sellers -- The Reagan revolution and the Democrats' identity crisis: President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich; Senator George McGovern and Senator Gary Hart; Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney; Pat Buchanan and Senator Hillary Clinton -- Second thoughts and the long view: Sam Brown; Jeremy Larner; Carl Pope; Ed Crane; Dolores Huerta -- The war without end: David Cadwell; General Colin Powell; General Wayne Downing; Senator John McCain; Senator Bob Kerrey; Senator Chuck Hagel; Dr. Charles Desmond; Ron Armella; Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Peter Davis -- I am woman: Jane Pauley; Anne Taylor Fleming; Linda Greenhouse; Dorothy Rabinowitz; Dr. Ruth Simmons; Dr. Susan Miller -- Like a rolling stone: James Taylor; Paul Simon; Jann Wenner; Warren Beatty; Lawrence Kasdan; Lorne Michaels; Dick Gregory; Tommy Smothers; Leonard Riggio -- Part 3: Reflections: seeing what connects. The view from the moon: Garry Trudeau; other voices; Joan Baez and Don McLean; Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins; Jack Weinberg; Stewart Brand; Captain Jim Lovell -- Timeline.

Pt. 1: Something's happening here. A loss of innocence ; He had a dream ; The fracture of 1968 : the noisy masses vs. the silent majority ; A place called Vietnam ; A woman's place ; Something's happening here -- Pt. 2: Aftershocks : consequences, intended and otherwise. A dream fulfilled and a dream deferred ; The Reagan revolution and the Democrats' identity crisis ; Second thoughts and the long view ; The war without end ; I am woman ; Like a rolling stone -- Pt. 3: Reflections : seeing what connects. The view from the moon -- Timeline.

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