The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

By Roger Kimball

Categories: History, Politics & Social Sciences

In The Long March (2000), critic Roger Kimball examines the cultural revolution of the 1960s, from the Beat writers to Timothy Leary and the campus radicals, and argues that it reshaped American culture and institutions for the worse. Kimball profiles figures including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Norman Mailer and Susan Sontag, and argues that their ideas about drugs, sex and authority have become part of mainstream education, art and politics.

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