The author, a student activist during the sixties, offers a personal perspective on the social and political changes of that decade
Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation on all its glory and tragedy.
The connection between all the rhetoric and all the poetry, between the words of a Black Panther and those of a rock star or a pacifist, between the scars of a pop artist and those of a napalm victim, have haunted and informed the ...
The Sixties: An Illustrated History in Colour, 1960-1970
The book examines the dramatic era chronologically and thematically and demonstrates that what made the era so unique were the various social "movements" that eventually merged with the counterculture to form a "sixties culture," the ...
1 single in January 1964 : ' Glad All Over ' by The Dave Clark Five. February. 1964. BILLY. J. KRAMER. AND. THE. DAKOTAS. Little Children Up to this point in his career , Billy J. Kramer had diligently followed Brian Epstein's advice ...
Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution – one that raged most clearly in the United States, Britain, France, and Italy.
This is an entertaining and highly personal exploration of the 20th century's most colourful decade.
In The Sixties, Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly dismantling the big ideas that dominated the era - liberation, permissiveness and self-invention - to consider what she and her generation were really up to.
Terry Anderson's The Sixties is a concise yet thorough survey of the tumultuous and immensely consequential 1960's.
A collection of photographs by one of the great chroniclers of the sixtiesNearly double the amount of photographs that were contained in the first editionColor photographs that were not included...
This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the...
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.
This book covers the 1960's as part of the definitive history of American cinema from its emergence in the 1800s to the present day.
Mick Jagger. Ken Kesey. Timothy Leary. Allen Ginsberg. Jim Morrison. Neil Young. Abbie Hoffman. Jerry Garcia. Janis Joplin. Grace Slick. Pete Townshend. Ram Dass. Dennis Hopper. Peter Fonda. Jane Fonda....
A new approach to one of the most memorable decades in recent history.
Traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1960s, including science, technology, fashion, music, art, architecture, sports, entertainment, and news.
A collection of essays, magazine articles, etc. previously published in contemporary publications focusing on the thoughts, trends and current events of the decade of the 1960s.
Terry Anderson tackles the question of why America experienced a full decade of tumult and change, the reverberations and consequences from which are still felt today.
This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history.