History Askew

Professor Berman’s earlier A Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Plays may have been helpful. I wouldn’t know. His present guide to the intellectual life of the sixties, however, is not of much use.

Both title and subtitle are misleading. This is not an intellectual history of the sixties—it does not even mention major works in the humanities or the social sciences and history that have been of marked influence in the last few years. It is, rather, a col...