Dissent in the Heartland: The Sixties at Indiana University
by Mary Ann Wynkoop
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Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Binding: Library Binding
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.772255
EAN: 9780253341181
ISBN: 0253341183
Label: Indiana University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2002-10
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Studio: Indiana University Press
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Summary: I was in the thick of it
Comment: I was in the thick of it from fall of 1969 through summer of 1970. I worked for the Spectator and wrote a few articles. I marched in the demos. I was part of women's liberation. It was the most important year of my life. I went from being mild-mannered grad student to a person who questioned everything. It took me years to come down from the experience of being at IU at that time. The book is a good factual account of what happened but doesn't quite convey the unbelievable experience of watching the world change in front of your eyes. It was just a wonderful time.
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Summary: It made me feel just like I was there -- wait a minute, I was!
Comment: This book is fascinating! While I was never an activist, I was a student at Indiana University in the mid-60s, and I recall everything of what the author had to say about the times as being very accurate. When I went to I.U. as a freshman in 1963, women students still had a curfew, and male students had to take two years of compulsory ROTC. I put in my two years of ROTC (grudgingly) and then discovered that student "activists" had successfully campaigned to make it optional. It made me wish I had been more of an activist myself, and I would have been able to skip the second year of ROTC like they did! What I found most compelling about this book was the author's accounts of how student activism increased and changed after I graduated in 1967 and left the state -- wow, did it ever! This is a well-researched and well-written book and will be enjoyed particularly by anyone who is familiar with the time and place. Those who are not will also benefit from learning more about this socially and politically important era. It made me want to go back and visit Bloomington, Indiana all over again.
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Summary: Well Worth Reading
Comment: Mary Ann Wynkoop has written the definitive history of Indiana University student dissent in the 60's. I know first-hand most of the people and events of which she writes, and can say from personal experience that her book is accurate, sensitive, and reliable. This book will be of interest not only to present and former IU students, but to anyone who is interested in the American anti-war, student protest, civil rights, and early feminist movements of that time.
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Summary: I was in the thick of it
Comment: I was in the thick of it from fall of 1969 through summer of 1970. I worked for the Spectator and wrote a few articles. I marched in the demos. I was part of women's liberation. It was the most important year of my life. I went from being mild-mannered grad student to a person who questioned everything. It took me years to come down from the experience of being at IU at that time. The book is a good factual account of what happened but doesn't quite convey the unbelievable experience of watching the world change in front of your eyes. It was just a wonderful time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It made me feel just like I was there -- wait a minute, I was!
Comment: This book is fascinating! While I was never an activist, I was a student at Indiana University in the mid-60s, and I recall everything of what the author had to say about the times as being very accurate. When I went to I.U. as a freshman in 1963, women students still had a curfew, and male students had to take two years of compulsory ROTC. I put in my two years of ROTC (grudgingly) and then discovered that student "activists" had successfully campaigned to make it optional. It made me wish I had been more of an activist myself, and I would have been able to skip the second year of ROTC like they did! What I found most compelling about this book was the author's accounts of how student activism increased and changed after I graduated in 1967 and left the state -- wow, did it ever! This is a well-researched and well-written book and will be enjoyed particularly by anyone who is familiar with the time and place. Those who are not will also benefit from learning more about this socially and politically important era. It made me want to go back and visit Bloomington, Indiana all over again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Well Worth Reading
Comment: Mary Ann Wynkoop has written the definitive history of Indiana University student dissent in the 60's. I know first-hand most of the people and events of which she writes, and can say from personal experience that her book is accurate, sensitive, and reliable. This book will be of interest not only to present and former IU students, but to anyone who is interested in the American anti-war, student protest, civil rights, and early feminist movements of that time.
This grassroots view of student activism in the 1960s chronicles the years of protest at one Midwestern university. Located in a region of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family values, Indiana University was home to the antiwar protestors, civil rights activists, members of the counterculture, and feminists who helped change the heart of Middle America. Its students made their voices heard on issues from such local matters as dorm curfews and self-governance to national issues of racism, sexism, and the Vietnam War. Their recognition that the personal was the political would change them forever. The protest movement they helped shape would reach into the heartland in ways that would redefine higher education, politics, and cultural values.Based on research in primary sources, interviews, and FBI files, "Dissent in the Heartland" reveals the Midwestern pulse of the Sixties, beating firmly, far from the elite schools and urban centers of the East and West. Also of interest is "Rioting in America" by Paul A. Gilje Interdisciplinary Studies in History 0-253-32988-4.
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