Goines, David Lance. The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 1960s. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1993. 767 pages.

The conventional wisdom of talking heads and columnists, for the last two decades, has frequently blamed our current cultural malaise on the excesses of the 1960s. Now we have the real story on a portion of that period straight from a major participant. Without a doubt, many of those who sat in at Sproul Hall in 1964 were smarter, more competent, more ethical, more democratic, more sensitive to important issues, less racist, and better educated than their parents, their university administrators, and their representatives in Washington. Yes, drugs and sex were part of the bargain, but that was merely frosting on the cake.

The story of the 1960s has not been told by our mainstream media; either you were there, or you ferret it out on your own, or you still don't know. This period has fallen victim to our ahistoricism. Today it is so far removed from of our culture's capacity for experience, that most observers look back without a clue. Instead the 1960s have become a repository for throw-away lines from know-nothings. It's refreshing, then, to find a thick book that knows intimately what it's describing. This is the definitive history: the names, the photographs, the blow-by-blow -- and best of all, the essential spirit.
ISBN 0-89815-535-5

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