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The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America

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Breaking new ground in cultural, political, and social history, Rossinow tells the story of the new left-wing movement that emerged in the 1960s from an innovative perspective: illustrating the spiritual dimension of student activism and providing the first account "from the bottom up" -- as well as linking local developments to the national scene.

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ISBN-13:	9780231110570
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/22/1999
Series:	Columbia Studies in Contemporary America Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

1. This Once Fearless Land: Secular Liberals Under Right-Wing Rule;

2. Breakthrough: the Relevance of Christian Existentialism;

3. The Issues of Life: The University YMCA-YWCA and Christian Liberalism;

4.To Be Radical Now; Civil Rights Protest and Leftward Movement;

5. These People Were from America: the New Left Revisited;

6. Against Rome; The New Left and the Vietnam War;

7. This Whole Screwy Alliance: The New Left and the Counterculture;

8. The Revelution Is Yet to Come: The Feminist Left;

Epilogue: From the Politics of Authenticity to the Politics of Identity;

What People are Saying About This

Daniel Horowitz

Rossinow convincingly points to the direction [1960's era student rebellion] derived from Chrisianity, existentialism, authenticity, and anxiety.

Sara Evans

Rossinow's brilliant analysis of the new left as an American search for authenticity brings together any strands of interpretation which have until now been explored in isolation.

— Sara Evans, author of Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left

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In a masterful blend of political, cultural, social, and diplomatic history, this book brings the crucial decade of the 1980s to life—and it does so in a highly original, imaginative manner. An ideal book for students, general readers, and speciallists alike.

Robert McMahon

"A search for authenticity in industrial American life"--that's what historian Rossinow (history, Metropolitan State Univ.) has identified as the main thrust of the New Left movement that powered the youth-driven political and social revolutions of the 1960s. He argues that the New Left resulted from a reaction to traditional American liberalism, which was seen by New Leftists as "elite-based," and from the influence of Christian existentialism, which redefined "sin" as "alienation" and "salvation" as "authenticity." Rossinow meticulously analyzes the interplay of academic politics and Texas state politics on the campus of the University of Texas, Austin, and shows how the New Left formed its organizational structure and ideological basis. This is a carefully researched, creative, and intriguing reinterpretation of American history. His thesis concerning the influence of Christian existentialism is overextended and the book is somewhat repetitive. But Rossinow's emphasis on the New Left's concerns with personal wholeness makes the idea of a continuum between the 1960s and the 1970s more palatable. Future books about the movement will need to consider this important study. For academic and large public libraries.--Jack Forman, Mesa Coll. Lib., San Diego

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Historian Rossinow argues that it was a search for spiritual authenticity that propelled students and other young people in the 1960s to fight for social and political changes. Taking the University of Texas at Austin as his primary example, he finds early expressions of people's alienation in such Christian writers as Paul Tillich and in student Christian movements. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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