In the first book of his two-volume account of Ronald Reagan and his times (Title: The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order), conservative historian Steven Hayward reported that contrary to popular belief, Cal-Berkeley wasn’t notably left leaning in the late 1960s. Berkeley attained its hippy-dippy reputation due to the actions of what Hayward described as 5% of the student body. This was the percentage that actually leaned hard left. Media accounts largely focused on this fringe, thus creating the perception (false) that this conspicuous minority was representative of the student body in total.
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