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

[R Williams]

Regarding JFK's stance on civil rights, see the article in the July 2 edition of Time magazine entitled "A Slow Road to Civil Rights."

Lifeline248 at aol.com wrote:  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."

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