The Movement and the Sixties
by Terry H. Anderson
Why did millions of Americans become activists in the 1960s; why did they take
to the streets? These are questions Terry Anderson explores in this searching
history of the social activism that defined a generation of young Americans
and that called into question the very nature of "America."
Prairie Radical A Journey Through the Sixties
by Robert Pardun
The sixties was a decade of change - social change, political change, and personal
change. A generation of young people challenged the existing order around issues
as important as legal segregation in the South and the mass murder that was
taking place in Vietnam, and as petty as hair length and dress codes. Those
in authority - parents, school administrators, police, the FBI, legislators,
and presidents - resisted that change. The result was a conflict that divided
the nation in much the same way the Civil War had done a century before. The
sixties changed America - and it changed those of us who lived through it. I
was part of that generation.
I hope that this "history with a human face " helps people experience
the passion of that decade rather than just learning what happened. ~ Robert
Pardun.author
Rites
of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties
Anti-war marches, human be-ins, rock festivals, psychedelic drugs, underground
newspapers, free universities, light shows, inner-city riots, radical skirmishes,
and hippie antics are chronicled by a member and in-house critic of the New
Left and counter culture. "Crowley provides a vivid portrait of one community
during the social upheavals of the sixties. It is stimulating, informative,
and entertaining". ~ Western Historical Quarterly
The Sixties Papers
by Judith C. Albert (Editor), Stewart E. Albert (Editor)
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.
The
Sixties :Years of Hope Days of Rage
by Todd Gitlin
Say "the Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when
all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could
change the world either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting
their bodies on the line" against injustice and war.
Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology
at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and
compelling account of this supercharged decade--a decade he helped shape
as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer
of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam war.
Takin' It to the Streets:
A Sixties Reader
by Alexander Bloom(Editor), Wini Breines (Editor)
Drawn from mainstream sources, little known sixties periodicals, public speeches
and pamphlets, this anthology brings together writings that have been unavailable
for years or have never been reprinted. Paying particular attention to civil
rights, Black power, the counter-culture, student and anti-war activity, and
the gay/lesbian and women's struggle for recognition, it also takes
into account the conservative backlashes and presents a balanced portrait of
a tumultous era.
 Voices in the Purple Haze: Underground Radio and the Sixties
Michael C. Keith ,Foreword by Dusty Street
From 1966 to 1972, underground radio shattered the conventions of commercial
radio. Over 30 pioneers of the underground airwaves share insights and anecdotes,
and tell it like it was.
The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict
by Spigel, Lynn
Editor Curtin, Michael
This book explores the ways in which prime-time television was involved in the social conflicts of the 1960s. Television became a ubiquitous element in American homes. The contributors in this volume argue that due to TV's constant presence in everyday life, it became the object of intense debates over childraising, education, racism, gender, technology, politics, violence, and Vietnam. These essays explore the minutia of TV in relation to the macro-structure of sixties politics and society, attempting to understand the struggles that took place over representation the nation's most popular communications media during the 1960s.
 The Feminine Mystique
by Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen (Introduction)
The classic book which triggered the '60s women's liberation movement. The "mystique" Friedan refers to is the idea that women should find complete fulfillment in the home as wives and mothers.
Walden and Civil Disobedience (1849)
Civil Disobedience has more history than many suspect. In occupied Denmark in the 1940's it was read by the Danish resistance, in the 1950's it was cherished by people who opposed McCarthyism, in the 1960's it was influential in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, and in the 1970's it was discovered by a new generation of anti-war activists. |
The Making of a Counter Culture
by Theodore Roszak
The author traces the intellectual underpinnings of the 1960s student radicals
and hippie dropouts in the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown,
Allen Ginsberg and Paul Goodman. In a new introduction, Roszak reflects on how
the counter culture has evolved in the twenty-five years since he coined the
term 'technocracy.
In
Praise of Decadence
by Jeff Riggenbach
From a libertarian perspective, Riggenbach reevaluates the social and political
significance of the 1960s, the revolutions that preceded it, and the explosion
of original thought that it inspired. He argues that the seminal decade ushered
in a period of spreading and deepening cultural decadence which still shows
no sign of abating. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc.,
Reflections
on a Disruptive Decade : Essays on the Sixties
by Eugene Davidson
Gathered together here for the first time, the essays in Reflections on a Disruptive
Decade present an intellectual conservative's perspective on an era which, because
it underscores so many of the political divisions still with us today, continues
to hold our fascination.
Second
Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties
by Peter Collier
Why did so many founders and supporters of the sixties' New Left movement become
disillusioned and drift to the political center and right?
What were their "second thoughts", and how did they extricate themselves
from their radical ties? Read this book for the answers.
 Magic of the Sixties Magic of the Sixties
by Gene Anthony
Relive one of the most magical times in history, a time that saw profound cultural and spiritual change throughout the world, but nowhere more than in the San Francisco Bay of the mid to late 1960's. Author and photographer Gene Anthony was there...
Summer of Love :The Inside Story of Lsd, Rock & Roll,
Free Love and High
Times in the Wild West.
Grateful Dead fans are sure to enjoy it.
Steal This Book. (1971)
"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned
to a particular decade.
It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit." ~ Abbie Hoffman
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"It's embarrassing
you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List." ~Abbie Hoffman
"I
believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed
there would be no more war."~ Abbie Hoffman
The Times Were a Changin'
by Irwin Unge
This is a book that is sure to tantalize and confound readers, while inspiring
and enraging them as well. It provides us with a better understanding of the
strategy and maneuvering of the 1960s war games - from the Bay of Pigs to the
Tet Offensive.
It helps us to define the current of social intolerance that plagues our country
to this day. With equal time to William F. Buckley and Abbie Hoffman, Barry
Goldwater and Hubert Humphrey, the Black Panthers and Martin Luther King, Jr.,
it is an anthology that supplies rhyme and reason to a decade that never ceases
to amaze us, endless in its capacity to be explored and understood.
 The Theater Is in the Street: Politics and Performance in Sixties Americaby Bradford D. Martin
This book examines the SNCC Freedom Singers, The Living Theatre, the Diggers, the Art Workers Coalition and the Guerrilla Art Action Group. These 1960s arts and cultural groups staged performances in public spaces, as art, theater, and politics converged and assumed a new visibility in everyday life. The book explains why these groups embraced public performance as a vehicle to express and advance their politics.
With the Weathermen: The Personal Journey of a Revolutionary Woman
by Susan Stern, Laura Browder
Susan Stern was involved with the Weathermen from their beginnings in 1969 until 1972. This is the story of her experiences.
At the University of Kansas, in February 1972, a group of women who called themselves the February Sisters took over the East Asian Studies Building for about twelve hours. Their action, as I see it, was to bring to light grievances about health care and day care at the university. shortly after their action, the university moved forward on a women's health clinic at the student health center and a day care was founded. Additionally, the women's studies department at KU was created, and the February Sisters are still known as the "Mothers of women's studies." It was an important protest, but one that was largely ignored by most of the campus and the Lawrence community.
"We won very few people over to our politics. We were not yet capable of leading masses of kids. Our…intolerance [hurt us]….We were lazy….We had succeeded in hardening ourselves — we could be critical of each other, we could fight for our ideas, we could fight pigs. But in all this hardening, we lost some of our humanity….Very often we lost sight of the deep love that had made us revolutionaries in the first place." ~Two New York Weathermen, 1971. |
The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass 
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