Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : why this is not another "sixties book" -- 1. Defining the new left -- 2. America in the 1950s : "the best of all possible worlds" -- 3. new left's origins in the old left -- 4. black freedom struggle : from "we shall overcome" to "freedom now!" -- 5. Challenging the Cold War before Vietnam : "ban the bomb! fair play for Cuba!" -- 6. northern student movement : "free speech" and "participatory democracy" -- 7. Underground feminists and homophiles : "the problems that have no name" -- 8. Vietnam and "the war at home" -- 9. Black power : "a nation within a nation?" -- 10. Red, brown, and yellow power in "occupied America" -- 11. Women's liberation and second-wave feminism : "the personal is political" -- 12. Gay liberation : "out of the closets and into the streets!" -- 13. Winning and losing : the new left democratizes America.