A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393316759)

The ideological passions that, along with critical acclaim, greeted the publication of Paul Berman's A Tale of Two Utopias showed how persistent are some of the battle lines drawn in the tumultuous years around 1968.

A Tale of Two Utopias recounts "in clean, clear, often funny style" (Washington Post) four episodes in the history of a generation: the worldwide student radicalism of the years around 1968; the birth of gay liberation and modern identity politics; the anti-Communist trajectory of the '68ers in the Eastern bloc; and the ideals and self-criticism of thinkers in America and in France who lived through these events and debated their meaning.

Praised for both "sheer intellectual high-spiritedness" (Houston Chronicle) and "the same sensitivity to the moral needs of the participants, and the same lucid evaluative balance, as Edmund Wilson's accounts of earlier periods" (philosopher Richard Rorty), A Tale of Two Utopias firmly establishes Berman as "one of America's leading social critics" (New Leader) and "one of our most gifted essayists" (Boston Globe).

Author: Paul Berman
ISBN-10: 0393316750
ISBN-13: 9780393316759
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/17/1997
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.36h x 4.62w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/16/1997 pg. 76
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1997 pg. 97
Publishers Weekly 08/18/1997