James Miller

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Professor of Political Science and Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research; author of Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 and Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN; former rock critic

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It's been 40 years since a half-million young people turned up at a muddy farm in New York State for an event that's still celebrated as a major cultural moment.

Woodstock: The Myths and the Realities

It's been 40 years since a half-million young people turned up at a muddy farm in New York State for an event that's still celebrated as a major cultural moment.

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