The Sixties : art, politics, and media of our most explosive decade

Book

The Sixties : art, politics, and media of our most explosive decade / edited by Gerald Howard.

Howard, Gerald. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1557784167
ISBN: 9781557784162
Physical Description: xv, 527 pages ; 21 cm
Edition: 1st Paragon House ed.
Publisher: New York : Paragon House, 1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:: "Athena book"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 515-527).
Formatted Contents Note:: The new mood in politics / Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- Patriotism from Growing up Absurd / Paul Goodman -- Culture and politics / C. Wright Mills -- The conquest of the unhappy consciousness : repressive desublimation from One-Dimensional Man / Herbert Marcuse -- The two nations from The Other America / Michael Harrington -- The fire next time / James Baldwin -- Domestic law and international order from Soul on Ice / Eldridge Cleaver -- Superman comes to the supermarket / Norman Mailer -- The girl of the year / Tom Wolfe -- Apocalypse : the place of mystery in the life of the mind / Norman O. Brown -- Transcendental experience from The Politics of Experience / R. D. Laing -- A social history of the hippies / Warren Hinckle -- Relaxation, awareness, and breathing from The Stoned Apocalypse / Marco Vassi -- The whole child : Summerhill and the First Street School from The Lives of Children / George Dennison -- Black humor and history from Gates of Eden / Morris Dickstein -- One culture and the new sensibility / Susan Sontag -- Raggedy Andy / Calvin Tomkins -- Bonnie and Clyde / Pauline Kael -- The emergence of rock / Albert Goldman -- Walking wounded, living dead / Leslie Epstein -- Television : the timid giant from Understanding Media / Marshall McLuhan -- Vietnam look at America . Black capitalism from The Selling of the President 1968 / Joe McGinniss -- Television and the press in Vietnam ; or, yes, I can hear you very well-- just what was it you were saying? / Michael Arlen, Jr. -- Too bad Lieutenant Calley killed Aunt Jemima from Be Careful, George / George Lois with Bill Pitts -- Parajournalism, or Tom Wolfe and his magic writing machine / Dwight MacDonald -- Three Thomas Circle Northwest from Famous Long Ago / Raymond Mungo -- Faust in the '60s / Marshall Berman.