Democracy and the Student Left

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Creators & Publishers
Publisher
Bantam Books
Metadata
Collection
Part of Stetson Kennedy Library
Year
1968
Description

In this book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author-statesman George F. Kennan analyzes the nature and source of the students' discontent: their opposition to the draft and the war in Vietnam; their espousal of civil disobedience and conscientious objection; their urgent concern for the Negro and the poor; and finally, their distrust of the democratic process as it now exists. The urgency of this dialogue is sharpened by the sensational developments - in Chicago, at Columbia University and in France as well as in Germany, Mexico and Buenos Aires.
Most of the book consists of letters from students and faculty members and "the older generation" including Martin Duberman and W.H. Auden in response to a speech by Kennan which was reprinted in the NY Times under th title "Rebels Without a Program."