On the Cusp: The Yale College Class of 1960 and a World on the Verge of Change
- ISBN-10
- 1625341458
- ISBN-13
- 9781625341457
- Series
- On the Cusp
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Author
- Daniel Horowitz
Description
How did the 1950s become "The Sixties"? This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitz's On the Cusp. Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics of social and political change through the experiences of a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort. A Jewish "townie" from New Haven when he entered Yale College in fall 1956, Horowitz reconstructs the undergraduate career of the class of 1960 and follows its story into the next decade. He begins by looking at curricular and extracurricular life on the all-male campus, then ranges beyond the confines of Yale to larger contexts, including the local drama of urban renewal, the lingering shadow of McCarthyism, and decolonization movements around the world. He ponders the role of the university in protecting the prerogatives of class while fostering social mobility, and examines the growing significance of race and gender in American politics and culture, spurred by a convergence of the personal and the political. Along the way he traces the political evolution of his classmates, left and right, as Cold War imperatives lose force and public attention shifts to the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam. Throughout Horowitz draws on a broad range of sources, including personal interviews, writings by classmates, reunion books, issues of the Yale Daily News, and other undergraduate publications, as well as his own letters and college papers. The end product is a work consistent with much of Horowitz's previously published scholarship on postwar America, further exposing the undercurrent of discontent and dissent that ran just beneath the surface of the so-called Cold War consensus.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Astrology on the Cusp: Birthdays on the Edge of Two Signs
By Sally CraginEngaging and easy to use, this book goes beyond simple, cut-and-dried archetypes of sun sign astrology, yet doesn't require any special knowledge.
-
On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia
By Jean Barman1 Margaret A. Ormsby, ed., A Pioneer Gentlewoman in British Columbia: The Recollections of Susan Allison (Vancouver:UBC Press, 1976). 2 N. de Bertrand Lugrin, The Pioneer Women of Vancouver Island, 1843–1866 (Victoria: Women's ...
-
Cusp
By Robert A. Metzgerhe said, looking around the table, focusing not on Sutherland but on Garvey. He stood and slammed his open hands against the table “What in the hell have you been doing behind my back!” Garvey shrank down into his chair.
-
On the Cusp: Astrological Reflections from the Threshold
By Philip BrownSPECIAL BONUS SECTION: On the Cusp includes the first three and a half chapters of the author's new astro-mystery novel, Wall Ride!In this book based on a series of blogs that was written just as Pluto was preparing to enter Capricorn, ...
-
On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Kuṣāṇa World
By Doris SrinivasanFourteen papers in this book by leading experts on regional topography and connective pathways; interregional, multicultural comparisons; art historical, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic and textual studies represent the first ...
-
On the Cusp of Greatness
By Mark WaddellThe first collection of poetry from Mark Waddell; a new breed of comedy-poet-libertine for a modern generation.
-
The Prevention of Oral Disease
By John J. Murray, June H Nunn, James G SteeleComprehensively covering all the pertinent aspects of preventive dental care taking an evidence-based approach, this book covers all the relevant dental diseases and conditions with essential points listed as bullets, as well as line ...
-
The Role, Position and Agency of Cusp States in International Relations
By Marc Herzog, Philip RobinsThis work seeks to develop a new concept with which to analyse the actions and activities of states that tend to be relatively ignored by the discipline of International Relations (IR).
-
The Cusp of Magic
By Sadie K. FrazierThey are preparing Keaghan to become one of the twelve warriors of the Zodiac Illuminaries of Ravenokh. Will he rise to the challenge and accept the call of the universe? Enlightenment awaits just beyond the Cusp of Magic.
-
Human Tooth Crown and Root Morphology
By Joel D. Irish, G. Richard ScottA valuable guide to scoring crown and root traits in human dentitions for ancestry estimation and biodistance analysis.