Are we now living in an era that echoes the 1960s? Comparisons between the wars in Iraq and Vietnam have become commonplace rhetorical devices in political campaigns, newspaper columns, and stand-up comedy routines. These comparisons can be illustrative, illuminating, and even funny, but are they apt? In conversation with Grace Cathedral’s Dean, Alan Jones, U.C. Berkeley professor of history Kathleen Frydl will discuss the cultural features – the rise of the mass media, fluctuations in American knowledge and public opinion, the level of public trust in government – of the Vietnam Era against the backdrop of the intervening 40 years and today’s zeitgeist.

Gresham Hall on the Crypt level of the Cathedral
Grace Cathedral
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