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Remember the Silent Majority -- By: Interview

Source: National Review Online

Oct 23, 2009

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Don’t believe what you’ve seen in the movies. Malcom X wasn’t friendly with Martin Luther King, most anti-war protesters were just looking “to get laid,” and plenty of Americans lived through the whole decade without seeing a hippie, save on TV. Jonathan Leaf, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties, answers some questions from National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez to set our record straight on that infamous decade.

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: If sixties radicals “were a small minority on college campuses and were often held in disdain by their fellow students,” why have they had so much cultural influence?

JONATHAN LEAF: Because through Hollywood movies, TV shows, and books, they’ve managed to tell a tale that reflects their own narcissistic vision of themselves as central and heroic to the time. Have you ever seen a Hollywood movie celebrating sixties counter-protesters who supported the Vietnam War? Did you know that hundreds of Berkeley students protested the “Free Speech” radicals? For that matter, how many Hollywood movies have you seen abo ...Read the full article

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