The Portable Sixties Reader Paperback - 2002
by Various; Ann Charters (Editor)
In this anthology of more than 100 selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America's most gifted writers, Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade.
Summary
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 more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America’s most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade.
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.
Details
- Title The Portable Sixties Reader
- Author Various; Ann Charters (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 672
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date December 31, 2002
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780142001943 / 0142001945
- Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.6 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 4.06 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Library of Congress subjects Nineteen sixties, American literature - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002032266
- Dewey Decimal Code 810.800
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 01/01/2003, Page 836
- Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2002, Page 1684
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