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The sixties unplugged : a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade / Gerard J. DeGroot.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.Description: xi, 508 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780674027862 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0674027868 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D1053 .D4 2008
Contents:
Preludes -- Premonitions -- Hard rain -- All gone to look for America -- Call out the instigators -- Universal soldiers -- And in the streets -- Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll -- Everybody get together -- Turn, turn, turn -- Gone to graveyards -- You say you want a revolution -- Wilted flowers -- Meet the new boss -- No direction home -- Epitaph: It's life's illusions I recall.
Summary: [This text] restores to an era the prevalent disorder and inconvenient truths that longing, wistfulness, and distance have obscured. In [The text, the author] offers an object lesson in the distortions nostalgia can create as it strives to impose order on memory and value on mayhem.-Dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 476-492) and index.

Preludes -- Premonitions -- Hard rain -- All gone to look for America -- Call out the instigators -- Universal soldiers -- And in the streets -- Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll -- Everybody get together -- Turn, turn, turn -- Gone to graveyards -- You say you want a revolution -- Wilted flowers -- Meet the new boss -- No direction home -- Epitaph: It's life's illusions I recall.

[This text] restores to an era the prevalent disorder and inconvenient truths that longing, wistfulness, and distance have obscured. In [The text, the author] offers an object lesson in the distortions nostalgia can create as it strives to impose order on memory and value on mayhem.-Dust jacket.

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