Charles A. Reich (born 1928) is an American legal and social scholar as well as author who was a Professor at Yale Law School when he wrote the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America. Excerpts of the book first appeared in The New Yorker, and its reception here helped it to leading the New York Times Best Seller list. As a law student, he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal (1951-1952), and he c...
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Charles A. Reich (born 1928) is an American legal and social scholar as well as author who was a Professor at Yale Law School when he wrote the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America. Excerpts of the book first appeared in The New Yorker, and its reception here helped it to leading the New York Times Best Seller list. As a law student, he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal (1951-1952), and he clerked for Justice Hugo L. Black during the 1953-1954 term. Prior to his academic career he was a lawyer for major Washington, D.C. area firms.
Reich is gay, and came to terms with this in San Francisco during the period of rapidly advancing gay rights and liberation in the 1970s. He eventually became actively out during this early period of the modern LGBT rights movement, and in his biography details his activism and the process of coming to terms with his then long-repressed homosexuality.
Reich has written numerous articles. The following...
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