The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994

Kopkind, Andrew; Wypijewski, Joann

ISBN 10: 1859840965 / ISBN 13: 9781859840962

Edité par Verso (edition Revised ed.), 1996

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• Titre: The Thirty Years' Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994
• Éditeur: Verso (edition Revised ed.)
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1859840965
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781859840962
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Revised ed.
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

This volume represents the 30 years' aftershocks of the cataclysmic battles of the 1960s, as recorded by one of the major journalists of that generation. A chronicle of political and cultural life from 1965 until Andrew Kopkind's death in October of 1994, it tracks the black civil rights movement, the New Left, Prague in the wake of Soviet invasion and Moscow during the Soviet collapse, Woodstock, drug wars, blue-collar attitudes, Christian soldiers and gay soldiers. As a gay man, Kopkind understood that there is no pure realm of the personal, and his writing captures history as it happened.

À propos des auteurs

Andrew Kopkind was born in 1935, the only child of a Republican father and a mildly social­ist mother. He studied philosophy at Cornell, earned a graduate degree from the London School of Economics and seemed to be on his way as a comfortable fifties' era journalist - for The Washington Post, then Time - when history intervened. As a writer for The New Republic in the mid-sixties, he introduced the SNCC work­ers of the South and the SDS organizers of the North to a national liberal audience. He became US correspondent to the New Statesman, wrote famously uncompromising essays for The New York Review of Books and was a founder of Mayday (later Hard Times), a newsletter that both shaped and was shaped by the radical poli­tics of the era.

JoAnn Wypijewski is a writer and editor based in New York. From 1982 to 2000, she was an editor at the Nation magazine. She has written for the magazine, as well as for Harper's, CounterPunch, the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, and other publications. She is on the editorial committee of the New Left Review. She was the co-editor with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair, of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence.