Dlb 16: The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America (Part 1: A-L, Part 2: M-Z)

by Ann Charters

American avant-garde writers, sharing a certain distrust of the virtues of progress and power, came together in the 1950s and 1960s. They wrote so persuasively about what they saw as repressive social and political conditions in the United States that they helped to bring about changes in the consciousness of many young Americans who read their poems and novels and were caught up in their spirit of rebellion. Poets, novelists, and nonconformist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810311488
• ISBN13: 9780810311480
• Release Date: April 1983
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 718 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.