Gates of Eden

by Morris Dickstein

Book Overview

During the sixties, says Morris Dickstein, America seemed to be at the gates of Eden--verging on a new way of experiencing life, art, and culture. In this provocative book, he discusses how we reached the gates and why, in the end, they remained closed. Beginning with Allen Ginsberg and the Beat poets of the late fifties, Dickstein traces the rise of a new sensibility in American thought, writing, and music through lively and incisive analyses of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140116176
• ISBN13: 9780140116175
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"