ABSTRACT
Rosenblatt, a 28-year-old Harvard instructor at the time, played a key role in the controversy. He describes his 1969 self as politically unformed and much too eager to be loved by all sides. His popularity with students was so high that cheers went up when he was named to the faculty committee formed to deal with the disturbances. When he heard this "terrifying ovation," he writes, he knew that he was "a goner," because he had come to a very negative view of the student takeover at University Hall and so voted for discipline. Roger Rosenblatt has produced the most vivid memoir yet on the decade of campus upheaval. Every schoolboy knows that the Sixties polarized our politics. Rosenblatt goes further: in the process of trashing civility, tradition, and authority, the Sixties students destroyed liberalism. "They didn't reshape the moral nature of the country," he says. "They killed off the liberals and liberalism and left the scene.".
