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The Kids Were Alright
Gettleman, Marvin | May 30, 1994 issue

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The article presents information on the book "When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941," by Robert Cohen. When the U.S. student movement of the 1960s erupted few knew that there had been an earlier upsurge of campus radicalism in the 1930s. Robert Cohen effectively refutes the nostalgia for the supposedly placid and benign campus life before radicalism "spoiled everything." The main story of the book begins with student radicals organizing around an array of interconnected national, international and campus issues. The spreading economic depression and justified fear of renewed war were in the forefront, but local events often supplied the trigger.

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WHEN the Old Left Was Young (Book); COHEN, Robert; STUDENT movements; RADICALS; RADICALISM; RADICAL sociology
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