Yet, interestingly enough, Berman's examination of the Left, especially abroad, brings him back to a consideration of why that Left often held as its ideal American culture and the spirit of liberal democracy-at the very moment that this same ethos found itself under attack from the Left in the United States. Having said that, however, one qualification immediately intrudes that is, this is a study of protest on the Left. In many ways, therefore, this is intellectual and cultural history at its broadest. In the process of exploring these four revolutions, he ranges far and wide to focus on human behavior, the human spirit, and institutional change across a breadth of time far wider than 1968. Although at first blush this reads like a rather neat packaging of change in the late 1960s, Berman's study is really much more than that. 8), the challenge to western imperialism, and finally the left-wing revolt against Communism, particularly in Czechoslovakia. In this comparative study, Paul Berman examines what he calls the "generation of 1968" in four settings: student uprisings (largely political) in the United States, the "uprising in the zone of the spirit" (p. Reviewed by John Andrew (Franklin & Marshall College) A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968.
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