Charles A. Reich
Charles Alan Reich was an American academic and writer best known for writing the 1970 book The Greening of America, a paean to the counterculture of the 1960s. Excerpts of the book first appeared in The New Yorker, and its seismic reception there contributed to the book leading The New York Times Best Seller list. Due to the theme and implications of this book Reich was described as a "high priest of antitechnology".
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Oberlin CollegeYale Law SchoolCity and Country SchoolNew Lincoln School
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Trending topics shown first"What looks like a man is only a representation of a man who does what the organization requires. He does not run the machine; he tends it."
"One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties."
"It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil."
"The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly."
"We seem to be living in a society that no one created and that no one wants."
"Moreover, the human condition, if that is what it is, has been getting steadily worse in the Corporate State; more and more life-denying just as life should be opening up."
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1928
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