People such as William F. Buckley, Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, James Baldwin, and Betty Friedan all come to mind. (And if anyone quibbles with that list, I???d be more than happy to talk about it in the comments section for sure.) But with the onset of urban rioting in the middle of the 1960s, figures such as Clark and Baraka came to prominence because, it seemed to many, they had something new and