The Portable Sixties Reader

By: Various

Book Overview

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 America's most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade. The Portable Sixties Reader is organized into thematic chapters,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142001945
• ISBN13: 9780142001943
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.1" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

love it

fantastic anthology full of poetry, essays, and short stories written during or about 1960s America.

A True Reader!

I found this to be an exellent primer on the 60's. Not only are many of the big names covered like MLK, Timothy Leary, and Hunter S. Thompson but lesser voices are heard too. I also enjoyed the divisions of the book into sections like Civil Rights, Counter Culture, and Drug Culture. Along with the books mentioned in the introduction this Reader provides many directions to go in understanding the 60's.