The new left

This is a tentative, skeletal approach toward a history of the New Left in the U.S. through documents and historical and critical commentary and notes, edited by an Italian political scientist with ""a long participation and experience in the radical and New Left movements in Europe."" Originally intended only for a European audience, it reflects a refreshing, foreign perspective sensitive to both the advantages (considerable) and disadvantages of not having any great communist or social-democratic movements like Europe's. As a survey and anthology of the American New Left, it is one of the best and most comprehensive yet to emerge, though Black Power and the other nonwhite liberation movements are treated only in the context of their relation to the white radical movement. Teodori's stress is on political rather than organizational development. The selections are primarily short analyses by Movement bigwigs and lesser-known longhairs, interspersed with statements, position papers; programs, interviews, poetry, and even Liberation Litanies from the Free Church of Berkeley. Added attractions are a chronology of events, a Who's Who of Movement organizations and publications, and bibliographies for each aspect of the New Left.