Monster Essays - Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts & The 60s: Years of Hope - Comparison
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts & The 60s: Years of Hope -
Comparison
The preface to Peter Collier and David Horowitz's Destructive
Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties and the introduction to Todd
Gitlin's The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage both try to explain the
authors' reasons for writing their books. Both books, based on nostalgia,
deal with the good and the bad which have come out of the sixties. However,
while Collier and Horowitz describe the sixties more as a time of
destruction, Gitlin places more emphasis on the spirited atmosphere which
led to the destructio....
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