The Lost Promise

The Lost Promise

Author: Ellen Schrecker

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-12-17

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 022620085X

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"Ellen Schrecker shows how universities shaped the 1960s, and how the 1960s shaped them. Teach-ins and walkouts-in institutions large and small, across both the country and the political spectrum-were only the first actions that came to redefine universities as hotbeds of unrest for some and handmaidens of oppression for others. The tensions among speech, education, and institutional funding came into focus as never before-and the reverberations remain palpable today"--