In an age of apparent political and cultural conservatism, with George Bush in the White House and Steven Spielberg in Hollywood, radical and liberal American social scientists are turning their attention to what once was: the social movements of the 1960s and the promise of a "new America." The American book market has recently been flooded with books by ex-radicals, such as Todd Gitlin, former president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) now Professor of Sociology at Berkeley, and James Miller, another SDS activist, now music critic for Newsweek magazine, telling it like it was. American liberalism is also in a state of depression and books like David J. Garrow's, a former student activist and advisor to liberal congressman now professor of history, and Adam Fairclough's on the civil rights movement, one of the greatest liberal triumphs of the past decades, must serve as a form of welcome relief from the present. Beyond the normal motivations for public recognition and monetary reward, these books offer both the authors and the left-of-center reading public a form of therapy and hope for the future.