The Long March by Kimball, Roger -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Dedication Introduction Chapter I - A Gospel of Emancipation

A toxic cultural movement The church of the Beats Flirting with the underworld “Starving hysterical naked” A religious writer? The legacy of the Beats

Chapter 2 - Norman Mailer’s American Dream

An established antiestablishment guru Getting away with murder The Walter Mitty of sex Gambling with a portion of society The drama of the psychopath

Chapter 3 - Susan Sontag & the New Sensibility

Dethroning the serious The art of intellectual impersonation Beyond good and evil “The cancer of human history” A tourist of reality

Chapter 4 - The Liberal Capitulation

A cultural Pearl Harbor Liberalism lost Operation Pander “We want to be your friends” The panther and the bulldog When authority falters

Chapter 5 - The Politics of Delegitimation

The warm glow of self-satisfaction “The universal conscience of mankind” Purified by persecution Casual antinomianism

Chapter 6 - The Marriage of Marx & Freud

The promise of sexual utopia Wilhelm Reich and the function of the orgasm Paul Goodman and tbegonad theory of life Norman O. Brown and the Dionysian ego Paradise now Herbert Marcuse and the abolition of repression Repressive tolerance

Chapter 7 - The Greening of America

Woodstock generation The liberated lifestyle Con games “I’m glad I’m me” Revolutionary bellbottoms

Chapter 8 - The Project of Rejuvenilization

Becoming mystics on the spot “Turn on, tune in, drop out” A nationally recognized symbol of change Forms of rejuvenilization

Chapter 9 - Eldridge Cleaver’s Serial Extremism

A pathology of credulousness Rape as an insurrectionary act “White Standards and Negro Writing”

Chapter 10 - A Nostalgia for Molotovs

Barbecuing pork Filling a need A platform of the radical Left Stealing the youth of America

Chapter 11 - What the Sixties Wrought

Of the privileged, by the privileged, for the privileged Emotions of virtue The glow of grand ideas The old hope of reorganizing the world A special nuttiness A Whitmanian critic Is the revolution over? The survivalist option A brigade of moral ostriches What the Sixties wrought

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