Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties - Brossura

Dickstein, Morris

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ISBN 10: 0674341554 ISBN 13: 9780674341555

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

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 such sixties icons as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Bob Dylan, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Heller, Paul Goodman, Norman O. Brown, and the Rolling Stones.

Now, on the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication, Dickstein has written a new introduction, reassessing the period's achievements and failures, and providing a fresh perspective on the ways that the sixties continue to influence our politics and culture.

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Book by Dickstein Morris

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0674341554
• ISBN 13: 9780674341555
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 301