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Books in Brief.(Put Your Bodies Upon the Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960s)(Review)(Brief Article)
Put Your Bodies Upon the Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960s, by Kenneth J. Heineman (Ivan R. Dee, 251 pp., $26)
In February 1960, four black students sat down at a Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter; by April 1970, the U.S. would be experiencing 5,000 terrorist bombings in a mere 15 months. How did a just civil rights struggle end in the Weathermen and Kent State? Kenneth J. Heineman's study closely follows student activism from its religious and pacifist beginnings to its takeover by a militant,
anti-American New Left. Of particular interest are the book's hard figures, which afford a much- needed reminder that the history of that decade was rewritten by its winners. Flower-powered sexual "liberation," for instance, was ...
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