Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
"Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times - civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the Vietnam War and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change--music, literature, art, religion, and science--and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, Thomas Merton, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Berrigan Brothers. "There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning (and I seek to do some of that here), I hope to offer a sense of how it felt. I have tried provide within these pages one writer's reconstruction and remembrance of a transcendent era--one that, for better or worse, lives with us still."--Provided by publisher.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Subjects
Politics and government, Race relations, Nineteen sixties, Popular culture, Social change, Civil rights movements, American National characteristics, Social conditions, History, Popular culture, united states, Civil rights movements, united states, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Personal Memoirs, HISTORY, African American, Modern, 20th Century, United States, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Civil RightsPlaces
United StatesTimes
1945-, 20th century, 1961-1969, 1945-1989Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
A hard rain: America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost
2018, NewSouth Books
in English
158838344X 9781588383440
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 626-665) and index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created May 24, 2019
- 5 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
November 9, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
December 18, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
September 29, 2021 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
August 18, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
May 24, 2019 | Created by MARC Bot | Imported from marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary MARC record |