"The key moment in the History Channel's '1968 with Tom Brokaw' comes when Brokaw interviews my onetime colleague, the historian Alan Brinkley. Brokaw prompts Brinkley, 'The left went too far, excessive in its behavior on a daily basis?' Brinkley replies, obligingly, 'Well, there were excesses on the left, needless to say--' and then: Wham! Down comes the editor's digital X-Acto knife. We don't hear the end of that sentence, nor do we hear any real historical analysis in the rest of Brokaw's two-hour film, whose secret subtitle is 'How Hippies Ruined America.'"
In The New Republic, Eric Rauchway disputes Tom Brokaw's account of the impact of the 1960s on the Democratic Party.
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