Where Have All the Flower Children Gone? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781578063147)

What happened to the Vietnam protesters and civil rights activists? Where did their idealism lead them? And what do they feel they have contributed to the nation's political debate? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in the first-hand narratives, history, and photographs of Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?

Chapters examine such aspects as the origins of the student protest movement and the conservative backlash as well as the fates of draft evaders, expatriates, and conscientious objectors. Respondents explore the conflict between the various generations over Vietnam, Iraq, and other issues. What happened to the children of the 1960s, and how do they reconcile their pasts with the present? Gurvis examines little-known aspects of the 1960s such as an uprising at Colorado State and coffeehouses that helped soldiers form opinions about Vietnam.

Where Have All the Flower Children Gone? puts a contemporary face on the Age of Aquarius. Gurvis interviews such officials as Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska) and such high-profile former radicals as Bernadine Dohrn. The book also provides one of the last interviews with the late Ossie Davis. The major and minor players of Kent State and Jackson State, where students and others perished at the hands of soldiers, weigh in as well as do the generations preceding and succeeding the Baby Boomers.

Author: Sandra Gurvis
ISBN-10: 1578063140
ISBN-13: 9781578063147
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Language: English
Published: 10/26/2006
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.82w x 1.17d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/2006 pg. 86