About the Author

Howard Brick is Professor and Louis Evans Chair in U.S. History at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

"Brick's immensely learned, discerning, and useful book ... is one of the finest studies of American culture in the 1960s."-Choice. February, 1999. "Howard Brick has performed an important service and produced a remarkable book... What Brick has done is to remind us of just how important ideas were in the 1960s and, equally important, to illustrate how these various threads of 1960s life-the political, the social, and the intellectual-all wound in and out of one another... As a result, we cannot look back on the decade the same way ever again."-Alexander Bloom, The Journal of American History. September, 1999. "This is the most useful intellectual history of the 1960s to date."-J. David Hoeveler, American Historical Review. October, 1999. "Brick's volume ... reveals massive research into the intellectual and cultural trends of post-World War II America... Brick makes a concerted attempt to include matters of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in his analysis. His comments on the emergence of feminism and black power are tantalizing. So too is his discussion of the Chicano and Native American protest movements... Brick has gone a long way toward making understandable an otherwise confusing era."-Marian E. Stroebel, History: Review of New Books. Summer, 1999. "Age of Contradiction provides a social history of American thought and culture in the 1960s... This provides a framewok for understanding the events and tensions of the times."-Bookwatch, May 2001