What was so different about the Sixties? In his landmark book, famed chronicler Todd Gitlin referred to the period as “Years of Hope, Days of Rage.” Was this a time of extraordinary vision and genuine transformation or of foolish dreams, empty promises, and even the beginning of the fraying of American culture? While Jim Kenney, drawing on his own experience, holds to the first characterization, he will take care to examine both points of view.