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The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin Classics),New
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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 Americas 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 Antivietnam 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 Womens Movement, And The Environmental Movement. The Concluding Chapter, Elegies For The Sixties, Offers Tributes To Ten Figures Whose Livesand Deathscaptured 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 Obrien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty And More.For More Than Seventy Years, Penguin Has Been The Leading Publisher Of Classic Literature In The Englishspeaking World. With More Than 1,700 Titles, Penguin Classics Represents A Global Bookshelf Of The Best Works Throughout History And Across Genres And Disciplines. Readers Trust The Series To Provide Authoritative Texts Enhanced By Introductions And Notes By Distinguished Scholars And Contemporary Authors, As Well As Uptodate Translations By Awardwinning Translators.
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