Kevin Boyle

“With that vote the 1960s took their final turn, not to the polarization of left and right--though during the NIxon years there were moments so divisive reasonable people feared that the nation was coming undone--but to a bitter, often brutal struggle between an administration determined to reconstruct the order the decade's upheavals had shattered and those forces the shattering had released: a struggle for the nation's future shaped by the enormous weight of aits past, as the rest of the sixties had been.”
― Kevin Boyle, The Shattering: America in the 1960s