Nation of Rebels by Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
Nation of Rebels Story aired: Friday, January 14, 2005
A classic cartoon from the New Yorker magazine depicts the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara wearing a Bart Simpson T-Shirt. Irony or just a sign of changing times when counterculture goes mainstream?
In the new book "Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture, "Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter take a new look at what counterculture really is. Their conclusion? It's not a threat to the system, it is the system.
