U.S. Politics & Government - 1945 - 1989, U.S. Politics & Government - 1945 to Present, Post-World War II American History - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
William O'Neill's masterly chronicle of the twentieth century's most confounding decade is a book that combines wit with learning and seriousness with entertainment. Its emphasis is inevitably on politics, but it offers a brilliant yet balanced portrayal of the New Left, the counterculture, the civil rights movement, the plunge into Vietnam, the crisis in the universities, and the freakier aspects of the popular culture.A fresh, incisive and balanced analysis of the 1960's, that brings to light new aspects of that turbulent decade.
Editorials
Midwest Book Review
"Both readable and involving, presenting the political and cultural focus with a twist of wit and sympathetic insight rare to an interpretation of the times."The Bookwatch
"'Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s' is both readable and involving."—May 2005
Bookwatch
Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s is both readable and involving.Chicago Sun-Times
For those who like their history readable and authentic, this is their book. It does magnificently for the 1960s what Frederick Lewis Allen did for the 1920s.Cleveland Press
One of those rare books that starts out good and improves as it goes along. O'Neill has captured it all at just the right moment with just the right wit and intellect.Midwest Book Review
Both readable and involving, presenting the political and cultural focus with a twist of wit and sympathetic insight rare to an interpretation of the times.— James A. Cox
Book Details
Published
October 31, 1988
Publisher
New York, N.Y. : Times Books, c1971.
Pages
480
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780812962239