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(From “Dear Mr. Fantasy: An American Tale“) In 1960 I was fifteen. Eisenhower was president and Richard Nixon vice-president. Gary Powers, flying a high-altitude reconnaissance plane, was shot out of the sky by the Russians, and Eisenhower had to admit, embarrassedly, to the American people that the United States did, well, spy in peacetime. This admission signed to reverberate through the American system like a shock wave,or so it felt to me. It was difficult to accept that America could do such a thing. As I understood it, we fought the countries that behaved that way.
“The employers will love this generation,” said Clark Kerr, president of the University of California (who would later resign in the wake of the Free Speech Movement). “They aren’t going to press many grievances. They are going to be easy to handle. There aren’t going to be any riots.”
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