the leadership class that emerged out of the late 1960s was not a sociological cross section of the generation, the way the leadership class that came out of World War II had been. It was highly atypical, and that was a contingency that would warp American society and politics in the half-century that followed. For one thing, it was heavily selected for non-participation in, and even opposition to, the war. It had been mostly the working class and the poor who had fought overseas and mostly the university-educated elites who had protested back home.
