Rob Goldberg recovers a history of American children's culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. A look at a defining moment in the history of childhood when politics, parenting, and purchasing converged, Radical Play tells the incredible yet little-known story of how the most prominent social-justice movements of the sixties — including the anti-war movement, second-wave feminism, and Black Power — both protested and partnered with America's largest toy companies in their efforts to reimagine the nation. Together, the toy activists and the toymakers changed not only what was on the shelves at Toys R Us and other retailers. They also changed the ways we've been talking about toys and children's culture ever since.