Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960's

Name: Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960's
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)

ISBN-10: 1566636132
ISBN-13: 9781566636131
Series: Coming Apart
Pages: 442
Language: English
Published: 2005
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Author: William L. O'Neill

Description

William L. O'Neill's masterly chronicle of the twentieth century's most confounding decade is an immensely readable book that combines wit with learning and seriousness with entertainment. Its emphasis is inevitably on politics, but it offers a brilliant yet balanced portrayal of the New Left, the counterculture, the civil rights movement, the plunge into Vietnam, the crisis in the universities, and the freakier aspects of the popular culture. It has endured as one of the great interpretations of the sixties.