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The 60s : the story of a decade / The New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder ; introduction by David Remnick.

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Random House, [2016]

Nineteen sixties.

American essays -- 20th century.

United States -- Civilization -- 1945-

9780679644835 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Sixties : the story of a decade

Story of a decade : the Sixties

xiv, 705 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Introduction / David Remnick -- Reckonings. Silent spring / Rachel Carson ; Letter from a region in my mind / James Baldwin ; Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt ; In cold blood : the corner / Truman Capote ; The village of Ben-Suc / Jonathan Schell ; Reflections : half out of our tree / Richard H. Rovere -- Confrontation. Civil rights. It doesn't seem quick to me (desegregating Durham) / Katharine T. Kinkead ; An education in Georgia (integrating a public university) ; March on Washington / Calvin Trillin ; Youth in revolt. Letter from Berkeley (the free speech movement) / Calvin Trillin ; The price of peace is confusion / Renata Adler ; The put-on / Jacob Brackman ; Letter from Chicago / Richard H. Rovere ; Harvard Yard / E.J. Kahn, Jr. -- American scenes. Pressure and possibility. Letter from Washington (the Cuba crisis) / Richard H. Rovere ; An inquiry into enoughness (visiting a missile silo) / Daniel Lang ; Letter from Washington (the great society) / Richard H. Rovere ; Lull (walking through Harlem) / Charlayne Hunter-Gault ; Demonstraton (a Biafra rally) / Jonathan Schell ; Hearing (feminists on abortion) / Ellen Willis ; Notes and comment (Woodstock) / James Stevenson and Faith McNulty ; Shots were fired. Note and comment (the assassination of John F. Kennedy) / Donald Malcolm, Lillian Ross, and E.B. White ; Views of a death (J.F.K's televised funeral) / Jonathan Miller ; Notes and comment (the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.) / Jacob Brackman and Terrence Malick ; Life and death in the global village / Michael J. Arlen ; Letter from Washington (the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy) / Richard H. Rovere -- Farther shores. Though tribe and tongue may differ (Nigerian independence) / Emily Hahn ; Letter from Havana / Hans Koningsberger ; Letter from Vatican City / Xavier Rynne ; On the seventh day they stopped (Six Day War) / Flora Lewis ; Letter from Prague / Joseph Wechsberg ; The events in May : a Paris notebook / Mavis Gallant -- New arrivals. Never before seen. Portable robot / F.S. Norman, Brendan Gill, and Thomas Meehan ; Telstar / Lillian Ross and Thomas Whiteside ; The big bang / John Updike ; Touch-tone / George W.S. Trow ; Sgt. Pepper / Lillian Ross ; Apollo 11 / Henry F.S. Cooper, Jr. ; Brief encounters. Ornette Coleman / Donald Stewart and Whitney Balliett ; Cassius Clay / A.J. Liebling ; Glenn Gould / Lillian Ross ; Brian Epstein / D. Lowe and Thomas Whiteside ; Roy Wilkins / Andy Logan ; Marshall McLuhan / Lillian Ross and Jane Kramer ; Joan Baez / Kevin Wallace ; Twiggy / Thomas Whiteside ; Ronald Reagan / James Stevenson ; Tom Stoppard / Geoffrey T. Hellman ; Simon & Garfunkel / James Stevenson ; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi / Ved Mehta ; The Who / Hendrik Hertzberg -- Artists & athletes. A tilted insight (Mike Nichols & Elaine May) / Robert Rice ; The crackin', shakin', breakin' sounds (Bob Dylan) / Nat Hentoff ; Paterfamilias (Allen Ginsberg) / Jane Kramer ; Levels of the game (Arthur Ashe, Clark Graebner) / John McPhee ; Days and nights with the unbored (World Series 1969) / Roger Angell -- Critics. The current cinema. All homage (Breathless) / Roger Angell ; After man (2001, a space odyssey) / Penelope Gilliatt ; The bottom of the pit (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) / Pauline Kael ; Art & architecture. False front or Cold-War concept / Lewis Mumford ; The nineteen-sixties : time in the museum / Harold Rosenberg ; Television. Television's war ; The bombs below go pop-pop-pop / Michael J. Arlen ; The theatre. Sweet birdie of youth (Bye bye Birdie) ; The theatre abroad : London / Kenneth Tynan ; Off Broadway (Oh! Calculla!) / Brendan Gill ; Music. Newport notes / Whitney Balliett ; Rock, etc. (packaging rock and post-rock) ; Rock, etc. (Woodstock) / Ellen Willis ; Whither? / Winthrop Sargeant ; Books. Our invisible poor (Michael Harrington's The other America) / Dwight MacDonald ; Polemic and the new reviewers / Renata Adler ; The author as librarian (J.L. Borges) / John Updike ; The first last time (William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner) / George Steiner ; The unfinished man (Philip Roth's Portnoy's complaint) / Brendan Gill ; The whole truth (Joyce Carol Oate's them) / L.E. Sissman -- Poetry. The heaven of animals / James Dickey ; Tulips / Sylvia Plath ; Next day / Randall Jarrell ; The broken home / James Merrill ; The Asians dying / W.S. Merwin ; At the airport / Howard Nemerov / Howard Nemerov ; Second glance at a jaguar / Ted Hughes ; Endless / Muriel Rekeyser ; Moon song / Anne Sexton ; Feel me / May Swenson -- Fiction. The ormolu clock / Muriel Spark ; A&P / John Updike ; The hunter's walking thoughts / Mavis Gallant ; The swimmer / John Cheever ; The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme ; The key / Isaac Bashevis Singer.

"The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century--including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike--alongside new assessments of the 1960s by some of todays finest writers"--Publisher's website.

Remnick, David.

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