Playboy After Hours

April, 1968

So many people are convinced that these United States are headed for hell in a hand basket that we feel called upon to provide some historical reassurance. Though we're far from sanguine about the gravity of the crises that beset us today, you will be happy to learn that Americans were just as unruly and anarchistic in the last century. There is nothing original, for example, about the "Hell No, We Won't Go" movement; during the Civil War, thousands of men rioted in New York City to pr...