Berkeley at War

Berkeley California stood at the center of the political social and cultural upheaval that made the 1960s a unique period in American history. In Berkeley at War W.J. Rorabaugh who attended the graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s presents a lively informative account of the events that changed forever what had once been a quiet conservative white suburb. Rorabaugh''s meticulously researched authoritative narrative covers the entire period from the rise of the Free Speech Movement to the growth and increasing militance of a black community struggling to end segregation; from the emergence of radicalism and the anti-war movement to the blossoming hippie culture; and from the explosive conflict over People''s Park to the beginnings of modern-day feminism and environmentalism. An invaluable account of its time and place Berkeley at War anchors the sixties in American history both before and since that colorful decade.