"Mr. Kimball clears away the underbrush of false history and shows
what actually happened."John Leo, Wall Street Journal

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

"Kimball's diagnosis is so powerful, so rigorous and devastating, that one who reads and
reflects on The Long March can hardly be immune to its extraordinarily powerful testimony."
American Outlook

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.

Roger Kimball is managing editor of the New Criterion. He is author of Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education and editor of several books on art and politics.

Raymond Todd is an actor-director in the theater, a poet, a jazz trombonist, and a documentary filmmaker who lives in New York.