W.J. Rorabaugh is Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition and The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age.
"Accessible and stiulating."--Perry Blatz, Duquesne University
"Thorough and engaging popular history."--New York Newsday
"A skillful researcher who also possesses a vigorous narrative
style, Rorabaugh brings scholarly clarity to the turmoil of the
mid- to late-1960's."--Publisher's Weekly
"Evocative and smoothly written....A compelling story of politics
and power, silliness and cynicism, ideology and
idiosyncrasies....Rorabaugh catches the temper of the times....He
leads deftly from boardroom to classroom, coffeehouse to crash pad,
in a perceptive and evenhanded Baedeker to a turbulent
era."--Kirkus Reviews
"[Rorabaugh's] meticulous account brings back those years, while
showing how little most of us really knew about the forces setthing
around us then....The book conveys many vivid images of a unique
city as well as provides an authoritative account of an era. The
significance of Berkeley at War lies in the fact that Berkeley was
a quintessential American city of the 1960s--and those times still
shape our world today."--The Seattle Times
"Rorabaugh narrates the events and identifies the issues that
swirled into headlines and newscasts as the disenfranchised sought
to get their messages and their cases before the general public.
The success and outcome of that power struggle are authoritatively
assessed in this detailed chronicle of a watershed moment in
American society's development."--Booklist
"A welcome addition to literature about the sixties....Can help
readers better understand both Berkeley in the 1960s and our
contemporary historical circumstances as well. It is a book about
the past, but also one very much about the present. With it...we
will be able to place our own lives in context, in proper
perspective."--The Stanford Daily
"A sober and absorbing chronicle of the transformation of a
university town into a political battlefield."--Indochina
Chronology
"Excellent....A unique, well-balanced, and solidly researched
study."--Perspective
"Excellent....A unique, well-balanced, and solidly researched study
that will be of interest to scholars and laypersons interested in
the turbulent decade that now lies twenty years in the past but
that still strongly reverberates in the consciousness of all who
lived through it."--Perspective
"[A] stimulating history of the tumult at the University of
California at Berkeley in the 1960s."--The Washington Post
"In prose that is clear and frequently elegant, Rorabaugh has
succeeded in providing a coherent overview of both the place and
the decade, not an easy challenge."--California Monthly
"[The] sources utilized here are voluminous and minded extremely
well....Comprehensive, if not always forceful, narrative."--Barbara
L. Tischler, Queens College, CUNY
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