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The Portable Sixties Reader
ISBN: 0142001945
ISBN-13: 9780142001943
Format: Paperback
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published date: 2003
Size: 5.25 x 7.75 inches
Weight: 1 pounds
Pages: 672
Publisher's Notes
THE PORTABLE SIXTIES READER is organized into thematic chapters, from the Civil Rights movement to the Anti-Vietnam movement, the Free Speech movement, the Counterculture movement, drugs and the movement into Inner Space, the Beats and other fringe literary movements, the Black Arts movement, the Women’s movement, and the Environmental movement. The concluding chapter, "Elegies for the Sixties," offers tributes to ten figures whose lives--and deaths--captured the spirit of the decade.
Contributors include:
Edward Abbey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Richard Brautigan, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Rachel Carson, Carlos Castenada, Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Herr, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Millet, Tim O’Brien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and more.
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The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics)
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New York Penguin Books 2003 Paperback Later printing As NEW 628 pp. 19.5 cm. Black wrappers with illustrated cover. Edited with an introduction by Ann Charters From rear cover: "From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America's most gifted writers, renowned Sixties authority Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade. Organized by thematically linked chapters chronicling important social, political, and cultural movements, The Portable Sixties Reader features such luminaries as Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Robert Lowell, Eudora Welty, Bob Dylan, Malcolm X, Susan Sontag, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter Thompson, William S. Burroughs, Timothy Leary, Ken Kesey, Lenny Bruce, Ishmael Reed, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Rachel Carson, and Gary Snyder. The concluding chapter, "Elegies for the Sixties," offers tributes to ten figures whose lives - and deaths - captured the spirit of the decade." ( more information)
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Charters, Ann (ed) James Baldwin; Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks; Malcolm X; Thomas Merton; Allen Ginsberg; Kay Boyle; Abbie Hoffman; William S Burroughs; Country Joe McDonald; Sherman Alexie; Timothy Leary; Ken Kesey; Sylvia Plath; Rachel Carson et al
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