The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics)

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	The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics) Penguin Classics, 2002 - 672 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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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.

Edited with an introduction by Ann Charters

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A True Reader!

I found this to be an exellent primer on the 60's. Not only are many of the big names covered like MLK, Timothy Leary, and Hunter S. Thompson but lesser voices are heard too. I also enjoyed the divisions of the book into sections like Civil Rights, Counter Culture, and Drug Culture. Along with the books mentioned in the introduction this Reader provides many directions to go in understanding the 60's.

caveat emptor

Charters collection emphasizes literary and cultural dimensions of the 60's. The result is a distortion, by omission, of the grittier, on the ground challenges to corporate/government power. Where are our GI's who mutinied, our sailors who sabotaged and took out our aircraft carriers, the Bobby Seale and Huey Newton trials, the mass protests at the Democratic Party convention in Chicago, 1968, the mass ghetto rebellions and much else?

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