TY  - BOOK
AU  - TOMES Robert R
TI  - Apocalypse then: American intellectuals and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975
SN  - 0814782345 (hbk.):
PY  - 1998///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - LIBERALISM
KW  - POLITICS
KW  - UNITED STATES
KW  - VIETNAM WAR
N2  - "The definitive account of the impact of the Vietnam War on American intellectual life". Argues that the Vietnam war shattered the erstwhile liberal intellectual consensus which existed in America. As this consensus collapsed, a New Left emerged, but the largest gains were made by neoconservatives and conservatives on the right
ER  -