@HeerJeet With all respect to @rickperlstein he is not Bellow or Roth.
@StephenMarche Hippies barely exist as plausible figures in novel. Book is about father baffled by daughter who does strange, violent things
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@HeerJeet She is iconic of the 60s left as the students who persecute the professor in The Human Stain are iconic of identity politics.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@StephenMarche Right, which is one reason I don't take the book seriously as political history. Wethermen weren't Jainists. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet And those "strange violent things" are exactly the things the New Left did. -
@StephenMarche Roth is using history as imaginative writers often do, to dramatize personal concerns. He's not writing history.
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