The Thirty Years’ Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965-1994

“The Thirty Years' Wars reveals its author to be not just a great radical journalist but a major repository of that enduring American ideal Walt Whitman called the ‘Democratic Vista’— … Shifting through the culture around him with infinite patience, Kopkind does precisely what a radical democrat in hard times should: He nudges us towards clarity.”—Los Angeles Times“Andrew Kopkind had a great talent for describing the political moods and emotions of the moment. Even now, his old dispatches crackle with the chaotic, breakneck energies of the late 1960s.”—New York Times“one of the clearest, most courageous voices in American radical journalism.”—Guardian“Politically engaged journalism at its best.”—Out“Probably no better record exists of these landmark events than the vivid reflections collected in The Thirty Years' Wars.”—Washington Post“Shelve this collection next to the best writings of l.F. Stone and H.L Mencken in that great library of books that torment the comfortable.”—Kirkus Reviews