SCRIPTURES FOR A GENERATION: WHAT WE WERE READING IN THE '60s

by Beidler, Philip D

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Book description: University of Georgia Press, Athens, (1994), first edition.. 254 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0820316415 "In this survey of '60s reading and writing, Beidler portrays a generation that came together and then came of age as an ever-evolving community of the word. At the heart of. (this book) are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide 60s classics ranging from 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' and Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five' to Carlos Cast. e n e da's 'The Teachings of Don Juan' and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'. Represented as well are such works of revered elders as Hermann Hesse's 'Steppenwolf' and Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'. Beidler's cov. er ag e also extends to works of the early '70s that are clearly textual and spiritual extensions of the '60s: the Portola Institute's 'Last Whole Earth Catalog', Annie Dillard's 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek', Robert Pirsig's 'Zen and the Art of Motorcy. cle Ma in tenance', and others. An overview of reading and writing as both a product and prime mover of '60s culture precedes the main section. In his conclusion Beidler highlights the most notable efforts to document and interpret the era. From. the goo fy beatitude of James S. Kunen's 'The Strawberry Statement' to the brilliant disruptiveness of Robin Morgan's 'Sisterhood Is Powerful', from the dense dialectics of Herbert Marcuse's 'One-Dimensional Man' to the inspired lunacy of Abbie Ho. ffman 's 'R evo lution for the Hell of It', these texts, set against the backdrop of '60s turmoil, served as the scriptures for the generation that marked both the zenith and the end of what Beidler views as 'the last great reading culture'." Small. bump to top cor ners of boards, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, tiny dint to bottom of textblock. Dust jacket has very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine and flap-folds. VG/VG+.

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