The Life and Times of Jerry Rubin

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Biographical Podcast
The Life and Times of Jerry Rubin

September 21, 2013

Keith Preston examines the career of a 1960s radical leader and how it symbolizes the history of American society over the past 50 years.

Topics include:

Rubin’s role as an early anti-Vietnam War protest organizer, founder of the Yippies, and defendant in the Chicago Conspiracy trial.
His immersion in the lifestyle fads of the 1970s and reinvention of himself as a yuppie businessman in the 1980s.
His subsequent “yippie vs yuppie” debates with former partner Abbie Hoffman before his death in 1994 at age 56.
Rubin’s claim that the radicals of the 1960s had shaped the mainstream culture of the 1970s and 1980s.
How Rubin’s life symbolizes the coming to power of the 1960s generation.
How the radical Left of the 1960s was able to radically transform American culture while allowing the System to continue unabated politically, economically, and militarily.

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File type: MP3
Run time: 1:11:36
Bitrate: 32kb/s

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