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Gates of Eden: American Culture In The Sixties, by Morris Dickstein
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Widely admired as the definitive cultural history of the 1960s, this groundbreaking work finally reappears in a new edition.
The turbulent 1960s, almost from its outset, produced a dizzying display of cultural images and ideas that were as colourful as the psychedelic T-shirts that became part of its iconography.
It was not, however, until Morris Dickstein's landmark Gates of Eden, first published in 1977, that we could fully grasp the impact of this raucous decade in American history as a momentous cultural epoch in its own right, as much as Jazz Age America or Weimar Germany.
From Ginsberg and Dylan to Vonnegut and Heller, this lasting work brilliantly re-creates not only the intellectual and political ferment of the decade but also its disillusionment. What results is an inestimable contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century American culture.
“Dickstein's study effectively carries us back to those times when we really believed that protest might stop a horrific war…[T]he best book on that exhilarating, depressing decade.” - Boston Globe
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