Growing up in Beverly Hills in the 1950s, achieving the American dream took no effect on my part. I received it on a silver platter. However, like many of my generation, who come to adulthood at the beginning of the 1960s, my vision of American was shattered by the chaotic and tragic events of that decade. Robert Goodman taught political Science at the University of Southern California and Philosophy at the University of Haifa. He and his wife reside...