LEADER 03963nam 2200637 450 001 9910460770503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5611-8 010 $a0-8014-5612-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801456121 035 $a(CKB)3710000000410442 035 $a(EBL)3138728 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001483875 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12595566 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001483875 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11429288 035 $a(PQKB)10702008 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138728 035 $a(OCoLC)1080550875 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58288 035 $a(DE-B1597)480055 035 $a(OCoLC)908634870 035 $a(OCoLC)979740831 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801456121 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138728 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11052028 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL795943 035 $a(OCoLC)922998529 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000410442 100 $a20141024d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClass divide $eYale '64 and the conflicted legacy of the sixties /$fHoward Gillette Jr 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-5365-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : what a hinge generation can tell us -- Bright college years, 1960-1964 -- Into the "long sixties," 1964-1974 -- Civil rights -- War and peace -- The greening of '64 -- God and man -- Sex and marriage -- Culture wars and the university -- Conclusion : after a long journey, a lasting divide. 330 $aMembers of the Yale College class of 1964-the first class to matriculate in the 1960's-were poised to take up the positions of leadership that typically followed an Ivy League education. Their mission gained special urgency from the inspiration of John F. Kennedy's presidency and the civil rights movement as it moved north. Ultimately these men proved successful in traditional terms-in the professions, in politics, and in philanthropy-and yet something was different. Challenged by the issues that would define a new era, their lives took a number of unexpected turns. Instead of confirming the triumphal perspective they grew up with in the years after World War II, they embraced new and often conflicting ideas. In the process the group splintered. In Class Divide, Howard Gillette Jr. draws particularly on more than one hundred interviews with representative members of the Yale class of '64 to examine how they were challenged by the issues that would define the 1960's: civil rights, the power of the state at home and abroad, sexual mores and personal liberty, religious faith, and social responsibility. Among those whose life courses Gillette follows from their formative years in college through the years after graduation are the politicians Joe Lieberman and John Ashcroft, the Harvard humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt, the environmental leader Gus Speth, and the civil rights activist Stephen Bingham. Although their Ivy League education gave them access to positions in the national elite, the members of Yale '64 nonetheless were too divided to be part of a unified leadership class. Try as they might, they found it impossible to shape a new consensus to replace the one that was undone in their college years and early adulthood. 606 $aSocial change$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y1960-1980 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory 676 $a378.746/746809046 700 $aGillette$b Howard$cJr.,$f1942-$01044035 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460770503321 996 $aClass divide$92469415 997 $aUNINA