This book started out as Mitchell Goodman's attempt to make sense of what was happening around him during the 60's. It takes the form of scrapbook or 'collage' as he puts it. It was put together over a two year period, having gone through a number of publishers and being rescued by the publishing arm of the United Church of Christ (Pilgrim Press) as a non-profit venture - it could never have been sold at a profit being about the size of a city phonebook!
What you get is an anthology of articles and documents many snagged from the Free Press' (Berkeley BARB, Villiage Voice, et al.) and grouped together in order that the vital information be easily accessed by those who need to understand 'The Movement' the best, i.e. people who are actually in or wanting to become part of it.
In the author's own words:
"We live in confusion verging on chaos, in the midst of a process of change we barely understand. Only the young begin to understand: they are native to a world in which there is no prefictable future, in which governments offer control and terror in place of the 'pursuit of happiness'. A world in which war criminals are called leaders. They lie, day after day. Masses of men driven by greed and fear swallow the lies of those leaders and hate themselves for it, and turn on one another, seeking the 'enemy' on whole they can vent their rage."

You don't have to have lived through 60's America to understand these words. It is both a historical document for students wanting to put into context this important moment in history; but also it is a vital source of background reference for anyone six decades later who wishes to pick up the torch and continue the struggle - Lord knows there is still much work to be done to heal our broken society.

The main Chapters (or, Sections) are:

The New America
People of Color (Black, Brown, Red, Poor White)
Learning
People Media/Pig Media
Rebellion, Resistance, Revolutionary Action
G.I.'s
What Price Salvation Now
How to live, What to do.

The author includes a - Note to the Underground:
'We're not advocating you rip off the pictures in this book, but if you do they might as well look good. The half tone *screen is 120.'

I did in fact spot a full page photograph (credited to Jean Raisler / Berkeley Tribe) on page xvi - showing a group of young people hitch-hiking (staged), as having later been used as the cover for the 1972 book by Ben Lobo 'Side of the Road - a hitchhiker's guide to the United States'
Part of that same image is also caricatured at intervals thought this book - such as p.72(TL), p.429(TL), p.668(BL).

My copy was (withdrawn) from Indiana State University, Evansville Campus, and had it's cover stripped and re-bound as a hardback back in 1970.

*half tone screen (I sometimes feel that I'm the only person who remembers what a half tone screen was/is). ( )