[Oe List ...] More on Rossinow's The Politics of Authenticy

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Many thanks, Marshall, for the pages from Rossinow's book--and for everything 
else you've contributed.   
Lucille Tessier Chagnon

Doug Rossinow . The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity and 
the New Left in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. x + 498 pp. 
ISBN 978-0-231-11056-3.

For anyone interested, I found a 1998 review of Rossinow's book by James 
Farrell at   
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28741905267699
Here's an excerpt of the 4th paragraph, which points us to a book by Farrell, 
the reviewer:

       "As I do in my book The Spirit of the Sixties (Routledge, 1997), 
Rossinow emphasizes the importance of religion and spirituality to the New Left. 
Activists like Casey Cason (Hayden) came to the movement, and attracted 
countless others, because they framed their activism as a matter of faithfulness to 
long-established ethical traditions. Rossinow traces this moral dimension of 
Sixties activism to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement's 
emphasis on "the beloved community." But he also identifies a "Christian 
existentialism" that flourished in campus centers like the University of Texas's 
Christian Faith-and-Life Community. There, long before the communes of the late 
Sixties, young people formed intentional communities that connected them to 
longstanding communities of faith and justice. Students discussed writers like 
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Tillich and Albert Camus, and took their work to heart. 
When John F. Kennedy titled his June 1963 speech on civil rights "A Moral 
Imperative," even he understood that the civil rights movement went beyond civil 
rights to moral right."

Lucille T. Chagnon, M.Ed.
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