Howard Brick offers a context for understanding historical events, cultural tensions, political figures, artistic works and trends of intellectual life. Putting ideas at the centre of an assessment of the 1960s, Brick explores the dilemmas, promise and legacy of American thought at that time.
In Age of Contradiction, Howard Brick provides a rich context for understanding historical events, cultural tensions, political figures, artistic works, and trends of intellectual life. His lucid and comprehensive book combines the best methods of historical analysis and assessment with fascinating subject matter to create a three-dimensional portrait of a complicated time. In one of the only books on the 1960s to put ideas at the center of the period's history, Brick carefully explores the dilemmas, the promise, and the legacy of American thought in that time.
