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Title: The Long March

Subtitle: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America

Author: Roger Kimball

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-01-06

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

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.

Critic Reviews:

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

Members Reviews:

The Long March

I loved this book. It was both perfectly written and narrated. In fact, I so enjoyed it I listened to much of it two and three times. The author provides an authentic, well researched scrutiny of the 60's revolution -- the roots, the personalities that came to influence and their motives, coalescing factors and how they were unscrupulously leveraged and manipulated, and serious ramifications (many to which we seem blind!) from a time of unquestionable revolution in this country as pervasive and enduring as China's cultural revolution. For me, it filled in the blanks, unmasked some indeterminate forces behind the times then and remaining today, and gave me a clear perspective of something I knew but wasn't able to fully articulate until I read this book. I highly recommend this book to anyone of any generation to better understand either what happened to a whole generation then or how we got where we are today... and do acquire some outrage over lost values and that generation duped out of its integrity. This is an historical perspective not to be missed!

Excellent Book

In this book Roger Kimball describes in great detail how the "Cultural Revolution" was launched against the fabric of our nation. True there are those who upon listening to this will begin foaming at the mouth as Mr. Kimball attacks and demolishes their cultural icons.

Whether one agrees with Mr. Kimball's own values is a matter of personal choice. One can not deny that the material he presents here is true. A group of cultural elites waged war on the values and ideas of a nation. Their ideas were hardly new. I was born after the events in this book occcured. That means that I and my generation have a lot of work ahead to undo the intense damage that our parents generation have done to our nation. Thank you Mr. Kimball for showing us how we arrived at our present day crisis.

Somewhere to the right of Stalin in thinking . . .

I bought this book as I wanted a historical review of the 1960s. I didn't care if the bias was positive or as this personal self serving diatribe turned out to be negative. The author never actually discusses the history. Instead using an artistic approach reminiscent of Saturday Night Live and their skits on bad English plays, the author only focuses on how immoral the main characters were in the 60s.

I mean really, they were immoral in the 1960s? I am stunned! Isn't that the definition of counter culture? I don't care how immoral these people were, just as one doesn't think of this when looking at a Caravaggio painting. It was what they did and how they did it which is of historical significance.

The author puts himself in the role of judge and jury as to what good and bad art is, good and bad spirituality is, etc.