Tom Brokaw famously called those born around 1917 “the Greatest Generation.” The epithet for the young men and women who had already come of age by 1917 was less inspirational. “Sometimes,” wrote Walter Lippmann, one of their number, “I think we are a damned generation.”This damned generation is the subject of Jeremy McCarter’s dazzling and occasionally exasperating “Young Radicals.” Among other things, Mr. McCarter has been the theater critic for New York magazine and spent five years on the staff of New York’s Public...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 23, 2017 17:26 UTC