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• W317036224 abstract "Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest. By Robbie lieberman. (Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 2004. Pp. Xvi, 264. Notes, bib. Cloth $44.95). Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back. By Eleanor Agnew. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004. Pp. xi, 274. 111., notes, bib., index. Cloth $27.50). Perhaps unlike any other aspect of the modern American narrative, the dominant interpretations of the counterculture of the late 1960s and 1970s have been flattened into uncomplicated generalizations. Thankfully, a number of writers and scholars have begun to parse out the various waves of protest within the counterculture, distinguishing not only between the various interests and influences affecting the participants, but also the different outcomes of those influences. The addition of oral testimonies by counterculture participants has certainly helped to delineate the motivations and intentions of individuals within groups. Importantly, these show that many of our generalizations of the counterculture members as drug loving hippies or radical anarchists have greatly and unfairly skewed our understanding of the past. Read together, anthologies of these oral histories offer a richer and more textured illustration of the and the why associated with counterculture political action; and reading the stories of participants is the single best way to understand what meaning(s) activists created for their counterculture participation. Both Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back, by Eleanor Agnew, and Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest, by Robbie lieberman use such oral testimonies to tell their stories. Both books offer engaging and readable additions to the discussion of their subject; in Agnew's case, the story of young Americans in the 1970s who sought to reject consumer values and create their own pioneering alternative life; and for lieberman, a regional study of the breakdown of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), workings of the counterculture, and how prairie radicals shaped these forces. Both books offer an intimate glimpse into the experiences of young Americans who rejected mainstream beliefs and politics. At first blush, it does not seem these two books should be discussed together. Despite their mutual interest in the counterculture, they are not really interested in the same people or in the same region of the country. lieberman's book starts almost a decade earlier than Agnew's, and the back-to-the-land participants that Agnew interviewed seemed to have experimented more in the American east than the midwest. As well, Agnew is not a professional historian while lieberman is an academic historian. Although Agnew and lieberman are clearly studying very different groups, both authors are essentially asking the same question: what made the members of this group become involved in the counterculture? Why did the movements in which they were involved fail? I use the term loosely here since I do not think that the back-to-the-land of the 1970s was in fact a movement, except perhaps in the physical sense since it required people actually move. Movements are made up of individuals and groups who discuss and adopt collective strategies for making change. One of the reasons the back-to-the-landers failed at creating an alternative life for themselves was because mostly they did not work collectively and found themselves returning to the mainstream economy to supplement their income and acquire basic essentials. In answer to these questions, both authors offer up a rich collection of oral histories gathered fairly recently from movement participants. Both books started out as anthologies of oral histories, but Agnew confesses in her preface that she could not resist weaving the testimonies into a narrative. …" @default.
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