Alan Wald’s review of “1960” published in “The Global Sixties”

Alan Wald has published a thoughtful & generous review of my book 1960 in the journal The Global Sixties. Here are the opening sentences:

With a thrilling indifference to more conventional approaches, University of Pennsylvania literary scholar Al Filreis adds a welcome and bracingly original dimension to our understanding of how the post-World War II cultural era morphed into “The 60s.” The method of this maze-like volume avows the inauguration of a new cultural period by looking backward to a confrontation with repressed trauma of some fifteen or twenty years earlier. A process of recovery became the impetus to a re-radicalized art. The form of 1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern is a narrative structured around a skein of ten essay-like chapters….

HERE is a link to the entire review.