USED: The Year of the Barricades
By David Caute
Published by Perennial Library 1988
514 pages, paperback
From the publisher:
"They marched, demonstrated, occupied universities, and courted police repression... What were they -- courageous visionaries or romantic utopians? Genuine revolutionaries or posturing brats? an authentic resistance movement or a frivolous carnival by kids who had never known poverty and the fear of unemployment? An idealistic challenge to imperialism or a pantomime of rhetorical gesture? A rebirth of the critical intelligence or a long, drugged 'trip' into fashionable incoherence? This book aims to provide a history that will yield tentative answers to these questions."