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Never read it. However, anyone looking at the history could come to the same conclusions.

I know that Horowitz would back me up in any case...I've read some of his work.

It used to confound me that ANY young Americans would refuse to serve their country en masse, or shy from adventure at an age when young men typically seek it out, especially since their fathers fought the Second World War. I had to look between the lines for the answers.

Cowardice, until then, had most certainly NOT been widespread in American culture. For it to surface so rapidly and radically, there must have been deliberate hands at work, as well as unique demographic and historical factors.

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Actually,you have to go back to the Cuban Missile Crisis,before the hippie thing started.I was in college,at the time,and people were freaking out,saying : " BETTER RED THAN DEAD." I was horrified and took to the stairs,haranguing the crowd with : BETTER RED THAN DEAD! GIVING UP YOUR FREEDOM,WITHOUT A FIGHT,IS SHAMEFUL AND COWARDICE!

In '68,when all hell REALLY broke out,I said to my mother,that these "leaders",from Abbie Hoffman to David Horowitz to to Mark Rudd,were RED DIAPER BABIES.I did NOT know this from anything I had ever read/heard about them;it was just a gut and intellectual thing and I've now been proved correct.

If you are at all interested in having a book list,I'll send you a few books that WILL reinforce your positions and give you some hard facts about the whole era.