The Greening of America

This book is dead-on in both its diagnosis and prescription. It trashes both the liberals and conservatives and gets right to the heart of the matter. If you can get past the hippy fashions of the day and delve into the more substantive issues of consciousness, you'll see what a crucial period that time was. Reading this book 30 years on, that the hippy revolution failed and that we are faced with an even worse social situation in some ways are sad facts. Nonetheless, there is hope. Everybody should read this book.

I am looking for a copy--I'm so sad that I can't find one. Reich describes so well, the youth culture of that era. Now in my 50's I'd like to revisit the thinking of that time. It is a unique piece of social history.

A brilliant and rare look at the Vietnam War era's culture at American colleges during the Sixties. It seems that all chronicles of the Sixties were written by authors that never really lived within the culture. With all these media cliches of that era, this story would never seem to surface ...and yet Reich captures this rare subculture as it REALLY existed. His analysis of previous American history is also ingenious and thought provoking. While his prediction for the future of this culture seem naive, his report still causes one to wonder: what are our full range of cultural choices?