tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post2108084770610636774..comments2023-10-08T05:00:23.559-04:00Comments on Clarissa's Blog: Bernard von Bothmer's Framing the Sixties: A ReviewClarissahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-50755884686267931812010-06-28T23:12:54.533-04:002010-06-28T23:12:54.533-04:00Exactly! That's why I picked up the book in th...Exactly! That's why I picked up the book in the first place. But then it turned out that the sixties only had to do with white men and women or racial minorities didn't participate at all. That kind of an account of the sixties is of no interest to me, obviously.Clarissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11027134365260069910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164556861454970487.post-57979119838129011412010-06-28T23:07:49.050-04:002010-06-28T23:07:49.050-04:00Too bad the book's not better, because it woul...Too bad the book's not better, because it would be good to have a well done account of how the Right got to be the one that defines the 60s (as a self indulgent project of rich and lazy baby boomers, from what I can tell). Having grown up then and in California, I can say that (a) it is true that the economy was better and one expected certain guarantees one cannot now, such as low college tuition, but (b) egotistical? when people were trying to figure out how to extend freedom for everyone? self indulgent - do people realize how much work it is to put an event together, or how much time you *don't* spend surfing (or whatever) if you *do* spend your leisure hours on a picket line? Haha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com