The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia

by Paul Lyons

At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying themselves as the New Left, as distinguished from the Old Left socialists who engineered the historic labor protests of the 1930s, these young idealists quickly became the voice and conscience of their generation.

The People of This Generation is the first comprehensive case study of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812237153
• ISBN13: 9780812237153
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.5"