Through four representative episodes, this book tells the story of student radicalism in and around 1968, in the USA and elsewhere in the world, and its aftermath. It incorporates accounts of Andre Glucksmann and the New Philosophers of Paris, Tom Hayden and Students for a Democratic Society, homosexual protest, Frank Zappa, Vaclav Havel and the Velvet Revolution, and Francis Fukuyama and his "End of History".