Young Radicals: Notes on Committed Youth
- ISBN-10
- 015665508X
- ISBN-13
- 9780156655088
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1968
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & World
- Author
- Kenneth Keniston
Description
In this book, the author shifts his attention from the segment of this generation that dissents through withdrawal to anothr group that sissent actively. For his new study the author focuses on a number of young people who, in 1967, worked for Vietnam Summer, an organization opposing American involvement in Southest Asia. He traces their psychological development, assesses the impact on them of their experiences in the New Left, and semonstrates how psuchoogical, social, and historical factors contribute to their commitmenr to the new radicalism. His examination of the family backgrounds from which mani of these young people come is particularly thoughful and absorbing. He argues that modern society is creating a separate stage of life that inervenes between asolescence and adulthood. Crucial themes stressed againg and again by these young radicals – whom the author calls “post-modern youth” – are affluence, chamge, and violence. Their reaction to these issues is central to their search for answers to problems that affect all Americans.
