The SixtiesPeter Stine Wayne State University Press, 1995 - 284 էջ The Sixties is a powerful literary anthology written by women and men who witnessed and participated in that revolutionary decade in U.S. history. Their essays, fiction, and poetry capture the complexity of events, providing personal, reflective, and diverse testimony on a decade driven by an obsessive will to change. John Lewis's experiences with SNCC or Rosellen Brown's at Tougaloo College are moral light years removed from P.J. O'Rourke's hilarious encounter with the Balto Cong in Baltimore. It requires mind expansion to imagine Peter Najarian's first exposure to the counterculture in San Francisco as contemporaneous with Richard Currey's initiation into killing in Vietnam. Maxine Hong Kingston's depiction of head-adventurers in the Bay Area forms an unlikely parallel with Tom Hayden's experiences in the streets of Chicago in 1968. Charged with folly and tragedy, the 1960s also saw daring and unacknowledged heroism on many fronts. This volume explodes any simplification about the decade and rekindles in us a sense of wonder about our recent past. |
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Essays | 9 |
Louis Simpson | 36 |
Jim Miller | 52 |
The Big Game | 84 |
David Caute | 157 |
Tom Hayden | 167 |
Todd Gitlin | 205 |
P J ORourke | 235 |
The Movement | 244 |
The Legacy of the Sixties | 270 |
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