October 2008 Title - non-fiction

October 2008: "The Dust of Death: A Critique of the Establishment and the Counter Culture and the Proposal for a Third Way" by Os Guinness

The decade of the sixties brought about the biggest cultural/historical change since the era of the American industrial revolution in the 19th century. As a nation, our values and foci changed as never before or since. Some change was very bad, as with the Sexual revolution, and some was very good, as with the end of American political blindness to racism and racist laws on the books.
So, how did the generational shift(s) take place from the Pre-1960's Eisenhower generation to the Vietnam War era into the post-Nixon years? To understand the transitional decade of the sixties, this is a key work. It's not as well-known, or as "seminal" yet Os Guinness has a gift (from his L'Abri years and his missions work for understanding cultural and philosophical thought patterns and how they flow through history. Some of you won't be able to put this one down. Some of you will wade through this one like a Nor'Easter. We have hit a second month in a row with a non-fiction work, so we'll probably have 1-2 fiction works to close out 2008.