Midterm Report: The Class of '65: Chronicles of an American Generation

by David Wallechinsky

Presenting interviews with twenty-seven men and women of varying backgrounds, this books offers a portrait of the sixties generation as it comes to terms with its maturity

Genres: Nonfiction

418 pages, Hardcover

First published August 11, 1986

About the author

David Wallechinsky is an American populist historian and television commentator, the president of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) and the founder and editor-in-chief of AllGov.com.

Reviews

[Marc · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author takes real people from a high school class of 1965 and looks at them 20 years later. Each one is told in the person's own voice and words.

Author quotes:

"But I would rather spend an evening with someone who has put a lot of thought into forming an opinion which opposes mine than with someone who follows the beaten path or who just doesn't care."

"Contrary to the expectations of others, I did not find a generation of hippies turned yuppies and I did not find a generation of self-indulgent acquirers. What I did find was far more complex and far more provocative, ..."

[Carlene · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my second reading of this book and I enjoyed it all over again. Being in the class of 1963, it was a trip back in time....and into the future of my peers.