Features September 1994
Charles Reich & America’s cultural revolution
A reconsideration of The Greening of America on its 25th anniversary.
It is characteristic of this kind of movement that its aims and premises are boundless. A social struggle is seen not as a struggle for specific, limited objectives, but as an event of unique importance, different in kind from all other struggles known to history, a cataclysm from which the world is to emerge totally transformed and redeemed.
—Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium
… the consciousness of the liberals had proved inadequate to the task.
—Charles Reich, The Greening of America
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