Synopses & Reviews
Featuring documents of the period by participants such as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, H. Rap Brown, Abbie Hoffman, and Robin Morgan, this volume brings together a wide range of material on one of the most turbulent decades in American history. The contributions are divided into five sections, covering ideas influential on the early New Left, the anti-war movement, SDS and Weathermen, the counterculture and Yippies and the the women's movement. The book surveys all the major issues that concerned the sixties generation, and offers a unique documentary history of the period.
Synopsis
Featuring documents of the period by participants such as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, H. Rap Brown, Abbie Hoffman, and Robin Morgan, this volume brings together a wide range of material on one of the most turbulent decades in American history. The contributors are divided into five sections, covering ideas influential on the early New Left, the anti-war movement, SDS and Weathermen, the counterculture and Yippies, and the women's movement. The book surveys all the major issues that concerned the "sixties generation," and offers a unique documentary history of the period.
Synopsis
"...[P]rovides a view straight from the source. This weighty anthology gives a year-by-year synopsis and presents dozens of articles penned during the era, ranging from Malcolm X's `The Ballot or the Bullet' to Kate Millett's `Sexual Politics: A Manifesto for Revolution.'" Utne Reader