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When Random House first published Charles Reich’s The Greening of America in 1970, they thought so little of the radical manuscript that just 5,000 copies were printed. The New Yorker followed the book’s publication with the longest excerpt in the magazine’s history, prodding the publisher to issue a dozen reprints—eventually selling some 2 million copies.  The debate about American political culture that the book unleashed has been compared to the impacts of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and the Kinsey Report.

“The most talented, driven Americans chased the American dream — and won it for themselves.  Then, in a way unprecedented in history, they were able to consolidate their winnings, outsmart and co-opt the government that might have reined them in, and pull up the ladder so more could not share in their success or challenge their primacy.”

I went to the Harvard game often as an elementary student. We lived in Boston, but were a Yale family. At Dexter, the boys’ school I attended, all my classmates’ fathers were Harvard graduates (no one mentioned where, or whether, his mother had gone to college). So I was the odd member of the class, sufficient cause to be bullied at recess.

Editor’s Note: Doug reviews this book, just published, in time for our celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Game in Boston, Nov. 16-17
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This book relates the experience of Harvard and Yale football players of privileged campus life, Ivy football and the campus and national turmoil triggered by THE WAR. As a forever thankful, albeit passive, participant in the Yale 1968 football miracle, I must admit being more than slightly off-put by the near-exclusive focus on Harvard for the first two chapters.  However, Chapter III (“God Plays Quarterback for Yale”) brought back …

According to the Class Survey, 49 percent of us have published a book or an article in a scholarly journal. So, to showcase our work, Yale1969.org hosts are section called Books By Classmates, a searchable and sortable library showing ALL the books we’ve authored or edited.  Check it out! 

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