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Local SANE activists, like the rest of the peace movement of the late fifties and early sixties, were more left and more female than heretofore understood. By contrast, national SANE's largely male, social–democratic leadership was more isolated and more autocratic than earlier portraits have acknowledged. The divisions of May 1960 arose with the group's founding and lasted into the new decade. However, one cannot understand the divisions, and thus understand the actual history of SANE, without studying the local level. New Jersey SANE, which was always SANE's most vibrant chapter, provides the lens through which this paper contributes to that fuller understanding.

The established historical narrative of the New Left, that oft‐told account of an Edenic early sixties was transformed into the beastly late sixties, is largely a mythic morality tale. The cornerstone of this 'declension' school, the conflation of the New Left's birth was the publication of the Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society, obstructs thecreation of a more accurate history of the decade's complex, lively, actually existing radicalism.

The established historical narrative of the New Left, that oft-told account of an Edenic early 1960s was transformed into the beastly late 1960s, is largely a mythic morality tale. The cornerstone of this 'declension' school, the conflation of the New Left's birth with the publication of the Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society, obstructs the creation of a more accurate history of the decade's complex, lively, actually existing radicalism. Adapted from the source document.

Discusses the 1962 Port Huron (MI) Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to argue that its common misinterpretation as the origin of the New Left has led to misconceptions. The 1960s social movements included SDS, a student Left that pre-dated SDS, & the older, pacifist Left that dominated most peace coalitions. It is contended that scholars have overestimated the split with the Old Left indicated in the Port Huron Statement, underestimated the impact of pacifism on the New Left, & wrongly dismissed the influence of those who joined SDS after 1965. The nature of the Old Left is examined, along with the social context at the time of the New Left's emergence & political ideas that separated the two. It is contended that the New Left began in the 1950s as a protest against the Cold War, shifted to issues of power & hopes of merging the peace & civil rights movements, but retreated to a modified liberalism after 1968. J. Lindroth

H. Larry Ingle's article, "The American Friends Service Committee, 1947–49: The Cold War's Effect," appeared in the January issue of Peace & Change.

This article investigates a neglected dimension in the history of the U.S. peace movement—the local level. By examining the Syracuse Peace Council between 1936 and 1973, the author not only advances our knowledge of the community‐level peace movement, but aids in providing a fuller understanding of the national movement during this time.

A review essay on books by: Van Gosse, Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left (London & New York: Verso, 1993); Kenneth J. Heineman, Campus Wars: The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era (New York: New York U Press, 1993); & Amy Swerdlow, Women Strike for Peace: Militant Mothers of the 1960s (Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 1993 [see listings in IRPS No. 81]). Each book is representative of the emerging trend to establish new social histories of the Left by discussing local studies, conceptions of gender, & examinations of culture. Swerdlow addresses how women formed Women Strike for Peace, a group that expressed a materialist critique of nuclear weapons & the Vietnam war in the 1970s. Heineman investigates the counterculture & antiwar movements at four state universities. Gosse discusses the political & cultural impetus behind the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. Each author takes a holistic approach, enlisting a variety of perspectives to illuminate a specific issue or incident. Collectively, the works narrate the rise & decline of the new Left & the changing forms of radicalism in the US. D. Karjanen