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Title:

A TALE OF TWO UTOPIAS
THE POLITICAL JOURNEY OF THE GENERATION OF 1968

By:

Paul Berman

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0393316750

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9780393316759

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Publisher:

WW NORTON & CO

Pub. date:

17 October, 1997

Pages:

352

Description:

"A deeply moving and delightfully readable account of the political journey [Berman's] generation has taken."-Isaac Kramnick, New York Observer

Synopsis:

The ideological passions that, along with critical acclaim, greeted the publication of Paul Berman's A Tale of Two Utopias showed how persistent are some of the battle lines drawn in the tumultuous years around 1968. A Tale of Two Utopias recounts "in clean, clear, often funny style" (Washington Post) four episodes in the history of a generation: the worldwide student radicalism of the years around 1968; the birth of gay liberation and modern identity politics; the anti-Communist trajectory of the '68ers in the Eastern bloc; and the ideals and self-criticism of thinkers in America and in France who lived through these events and debated their meaning. Praised for both "sheer intellectual high-spiritedness" (Houston Chronicle) and "the same sensitivity to the moral needs of the participants, and the same lucid evaluative balance, as Edmund Wilson's accounts of earlier periods" (philosopher Richard Rorty), A Tale of Two Utopias firmly establishes Berman as "one of America's leading social critics" (New Leader) and "one of our most gifted essayists" (Boston Globe).

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