Selective memory: textbooks whitewash the '60s.(Book Review)(Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left)(Book Review)

From: Education Next | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Ravitch, Diane | Copyright information

Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left

By Susan Braudy

Knopf, 2003, $27.95; 460 pages.

While reviewing several American history textbooks, I was taken aback by the descriptions of the late 1960s. It is of course somewhat startling to see the events of one's own lifetime described as "history," but it is even more surprising to read admiring, uncritical accounts of the radical movements of that era. The texts now in use in Americ...

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