Mike’s Reviews > The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage > Status Update

These reasons the movement failed are really fascinating. Gitlin does a good job of capturing how it felt to the people inside the movement, and how it looked to the rest of the world.

I'm not sure what to say at this point. I've made so many status updates, I feel like I've said everything.

I didn't realize how much hatred there was for the anti-war movement. It doesn't really fit with the rest of what I know about the sixties.

I always kind of assumed Malcolm X was assassinated by white racists. It genuinely surprises me that it was Nation of Islam members who assassinated him.

This makes me want to read a more detailed book about Castro's Cuba, to see what it was really like for the people living in it. Gitlin's perspective is interesting, but it's also super limited.

Man, this should've been a memoir. Gitlin's life sounds really interesting, and he barely talks about it.

The more I read this, the more I realize how much Alan Moore was/is a stereotypical anarchist.

Even after reading this book, the connection between drugs and revolution is still kind of fuzzy to me. From what I can tell, the New Left basically said, "Drugs make me feel really good. But, like, revolution though."

Man, radical leftism was a lot less radical back in the day than it is now.

There is some good information here, I just wish it was more well-organized. Gitlin can't tell if he wanted to write a memoir or a nonfictional book.