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The Greening of America
The 25th Anniversary of the Groundbreaking Classic. "If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today....I am now more convinced than ever that the conflict and suffering now threatening to engulf us are entirely unnecessary, and a tragic waste of our energy and resources. We can create an economic system that is...more
Paperback, 433 pages
Published
October 3rd 1995
by Three Rivers Press
(first published 1970)
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Mar 14, 2008
Catherine
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Stuart Douglas
"There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture, and it will change the political structure only as its final act."
The Greening of America is about a Revolution. Unfortunately, the Revolution envisioned by Charles A. Reich has not yet come to pass. Written in 1970, when the country was in the middle of the Vietnam War, on the eve of the Arab Oil Embargo, of an economic downturn, and of social upheaval and urban de...more
The Greening of America is about a Revolution. Unfortunately, the Revolution envisioned by Charles A. Reich has not yet come to pass. Written in 1970, when the country was in the middle of the Vietnam War, on the eve of the Arab Oil Embargo, of an economic downturn, and of social upheaval and urban de...more
i'm beginning to think this was a bad idea...i'm only 1 page into this book and it's already talking about how the youth movement of the late 60s/early 70s will be a strong and lasting one that will eventually overtake all ages and generations. the punk and metalhead inside me are crying their angry little eyes out....
okay, so a couple of weeks have passed, and i've finished the book, and i've had time to form a complete opinion of it and here's where i stand:
i got something out of reading this...more
okay, so a couple of weeks have passed, and i've finished the book, and i've had time to form a complete opinion of it and here's where i stand:
i got something out of reading this...more
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Poor Charles Reich. Not only did he confuse fashion with serious social politics, he wrote a book that didn't quite stand the test of time. Bell bottom jeans just faded, and just what did hippies accomplish, if marijuana is still illegal?
Well, yes, they did stop a war and hound an already beleaguered president out of office, but academics like Reich were mostly hidden in their ivory towers while the real revolution took place in people's hears and minds. At least, he was making some attempt to u...more
Well, yes, they did stop a war and hound an already beleaguered president out of office, but academics like Reich were mostly hidden in their ivory towers while the real revolution took place in people's hears and minds. At least, he was making some attempt to u...more
i originally picked this up at a used bookstore because i thought it was about environmentalism in the 70s. i was a little confused when flipping through it a little later and not seeing chapter titles i would associate with that subject. left unread, i picked up another book by james gustave speth, a professor at yale, called "the bridge at the edge of the world." in that book speth talks about when he was a student at yale his professor, charles reich, wrote a book called...guess..."the greeni...more
Somehow filled with both true moments of clear vision, and the delusional belief that America and the world at large would be turned over by the hippie ideology.
The observations on popular culture were genuinely good, and to a degree they still are. The evolutions of industry and technology and their role in changing habits and behaviors are explained in three historical phases of american "counsciousness", in an attempt to explain the mutation of values and the sense of self since the beginning...more
The observations on popular culture were genuinely good, and to a degree they still are. The evolutions of industry and technology and their role in changing habits and behaviors are explained in three historical phases of american "counsciousness", in an attempt to explain the mutation of values and the sense of self since the beginning...more
What the author says looked good when he wrote the book. His ideas were based on wishful thinking, as we can see the USA comsuming more and more fossil fuels, still making plastic packaging, overfishing, managing forests by letting in timber barons, managing grasslands by letting agro
corporations graze for almost no fees.
corporations graze for almost no fees.
Most definitely the best book on the philosophies of the counterculture. I don't even know where to begin... I am a philosophy major so I get a lot of the logic behind it. There's no need for me to criticize it because it contained very valuable information. I think it still has application-value. I am adding it to my top list.
Reich writes about the hippie and counterculture of the early '70's. His description of the various "consciousnesses" are interesting and in a general sense, right on, as also his theory on why we are so angry and partisan today. Spends way too much time on the significance of marijuana and bell bottoms.
assigned reading for Freshman year at Vandy 1971.
Wowie Zowie. Published in 1970 and still very relavent, maybe minus the patchouli and lovebeads, but maybe not. I suggest you burn some incense, put on your bellbottoms and learn a thing or three about how we need to improve our shit, you dig?
I read this years ago when it came out. I was talking to my mother about it - she said "Everything the hippies said about technology was right."
So I want to revisit this.
So I want to revisit this.
One of the books that transformed my life (another was The Chalice and the Blade) and gave me the idea for an unconventional solution which I lived for over one year.
May 06, 2008
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Wrote a paper on this book in literary criticism class in high school. Mr. Davis was a fan.
Nov 13, 2010
Barbara
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4 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
environment,
non-fiction
I think everyone in the United States should be required to read this book.
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