Economy

. . . And All That.

Yes, Florida was very much on my mind when I dug out my copy of The Berkeley Rebellion yesterday. I had forgotten that the book, actually a collection of contemporary essays, was published so close (1970) upon the actual events. What historians like to call "source documents," so to speak. From the Introduction:

The essays collected in this volume were written for The New York Review over the course of the last six years. During those years American society moved into a time of troubles deeper than any since the Civil War, and American higher education plunged into storms more turbulent than any in its history. There are few signs that the storm is lifting; in so far as the campuses are barometers reflecting conditions outside, there is every sign of harder weather ahead.