The Long March

How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

By: Roger Kimball

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

The architects of America's cultural revolution of the 1960s were Beat authors like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and celebrated figures like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver, and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Roger Kimball conceives a series of cautionary tales, an annotated guidebook of wrong turns, dead-ends, and blind alleys.

According to Kimball, the revolutionary assaults on "The System" in the 1960s still define the way we live now, with intellectually debased schools and colleges, morally chaotic sexual relations and family life, and a degraded media and popular culture. While some may think of the 1960s as "the Last Good Time", Kimball paints the decade as a seedbed of excess and moral breakdown.

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Critic reviews

"Roger Kimball delivers a shrewd judgment...Its dissection of the ideas that coalesced into cultural revolution is superb." (Wall Street Journal)

Hilarious and illuminating

Collection of the 60s most eccentric minds. Verry funny. The writing is perfect. The narrator is equal to the task. Oh and it's illuminating as well. Of course this short biographical review of aquarius figures is necessarily incomplete.

Prescient Analysis

Considering what the decades have wrought since this book was written, Roger Kimball remarkably prophesies many of the excesses we have faced with increasing alarm. Kimball proved himself a seer, based on clear thinking and deep analysis.

Excellent Book

In this book Roger Kimball describes in great detail how the "Cultural Revolution" was launched against the fabric of our nation. True there are those who upon listening to this will begin foaming at the mouth as Mr. Kimball attacks and demolishes their cultural icons.

Whether one agrees with Mr. Kimball's own values is a matter of personal choice. One can not deny that the material he presents here is true. A group of cultural elites waged war on the values and ideas of a nation. Their ideas were hardly new. I was born after the events in this book occcured. That means that I and my generation have a lot of work ahead to undo the intense damage that our parents generation have done to our nation. Thank you Mr. Kimball for showing us how we arrived at our present day crisis.

Wake up Retirees, Don’t leave the city, fight!

This volume put all the pieces together from what government schools and John Dewey have taken away from the baby boomers through generation Z. If you want to know “who done it” Here are the culprits, the villains, and even the leftist radical heroes and heroines. Read this tone and learn their names and teach your children well.

This guy hated the hell out of the 60's & 70's.

I struggled and didn't finish this book. he seemed very interested in other people's sex lives and or who they had sex with. In his opinion, all the music, all the writing, and especially all those communist liberal bastards sucked. a sad guy wanting to tear it all down because it doesn't fit his "Leave it to Beaver" or "Ozzie and Harriet" view of how life in America should be.

Well Done

Kimball doing what he does best… using the leftists’ own words and his sense of humor to expose their puerile, anti-social and anti-American agenda for the dismantling of our culture.

Very illuminating march

Having lived through this period, I did not appreciate the connection of the 50s to the 60s . The final chapter tries to end the March just to the early 2000s Love to see an update Well written

A bracing and indispensable read

5/5 stars. If you want to understand how we have come to the train wreck of our current cultural, political and social state, this is necessary reading. Brilliant.

Reviewing the Cultural Revolution

This book is a primer for anyone interested in learning the names of the folks who had the greatest influence on American culture during the time typically called "the 60s". The reader will also learn a great deal about the general philosophy of those folks. Not being familiar with the subject matter myself, I cannot weigh in with any authority on the completeness of the author's coverage of the subject matter. But I can certainly attest to the exhaustion I felt trying to keep up with the information presented. This book lays bare the completeness of the win that the left experienced through the changes America dealt with in the 50s through the current times.

How We Got Here

Roger Kimball explains why the left's agenda has been so devilishly successful with humor and panache.

it's a must read for students of the culture and those new to studying the history of the Marxist movement in America. A real eye-opener!