Too often, people have viewed the Sixties through a narrow ideological lens, whether from the Left or the Right. Leaf does a great job documenting what really happened, without the ideological tunnel vision. What impresses me about Jonathan Leaf's book is the degree to which he comments authoritatively on so many different aspects of social and cultural life: from fashion to music to public policy to intellectual movements. I learned a lot from this book -- and many cultural historians will do the same.
