The Portable Sixties Reader
by Ann Charters (ed)
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0142001945
- ISBN 13
- 9780142001943
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Goulds Book Arcade (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 174854
- Title
- The Portable Sixties Reader
- Author
- Ann Charters (ed)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0142001945
- ISBN 13
- 9780142001943
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York, N.Y. & London, U.K.
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- [270G POLITICAL HISTORY 1960S WOODSTOCK SIXTIES POLITICS
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