The Berkeley Student Revolt: Facts And Interpretations

The Berkeley Student Revolt: Facts And Interpretations

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Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some yellowing to spine and cover edges. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Price sticker on front cover. Binding condition: Intact.

The Berkeley Student Revolt: Facts and Interpretations is a landmark anthology in American political and social history, chronicling the explosive Free Speech Movement that erupted at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Edited by two distinguished political thinkers, the collection assembles a broad range of firsthand accounts, journalism, and scholarly analysis to present a comprehensive portrait of one of the most significant campus uprisings of the twentieth century. The volume argues that the Berkeley revolt was not merely a campus disturbance but a pivotal moment in the broader struggle for civil liberties, academic freedom, and democratic participation in postwar America. With a tone that is both rigorously analytical and urgently engaged, the essays illuminate the underlying tensions between institutional authority and student agency that would go on to define an entire generation of political activism.

Author: Seymour Martin Lipset And Sheldon S. Wolin
Format: Paperback
Published: 1965, Doubleday Anchor
Genre: American history

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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some yellowing to spine and cover edges. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Price sticker on front cover. Binding condition: Intact.

The Berkeley Student Revolt: Facts and Interpretations is a landmark anthology in American political and social history, chronicling the explosive Free Speech Movement that erupted at the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. Edited by two distinguished political thinkers, the collection assembles a broad range of firsthand accounts, journalism, and scholarly analysis to present a comprehensive portrait of one of the most significant campus uprisings of the twentieth century. The volume argues that the Berkeley revolt was not merely a campus disturbance but a pivotal moment in the broader struggle for civil liberties, academic freedom, and democratic participation in postwar America. With a tone that is both rigorously analytical and urgently engaged, the essays illuminate the underlying tensions between institutional authority and student agency that would go on to define an entire generation of political activism.