20th Century American History - Social Aspects - Post World War II, United States - Civilization, United States Studies - General & Miscellaneous, U.S. Politics & Government - 1945 - 1989, U.S. Politics & Government - 1945 to Present, Post-World War II Am

Sixties Going on Seventies

Name: Sixties Going on Seventies
Author: Nora Sayre
ISBN: 9780813521930

by Nora Sayre

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Overview

Now back in print, this revised edition contains the best of the original volume and brings the commentary up to date, allowing us to view the period with hindsight from the nineties. Nora Sayre guides us through our nation's transformation during an explosive decade. She explores the landscapes of the era—student strikes at Harvard and Yale, anti-war veterans, John Birchers, Timothy Leary, Yippies and Aquarians, utopias gone wrong, George McGovern, Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, black anger in Watts, the media at work, policemen in college, the 1972 Democratic and Republican Conventions, and the rebirth of feminism. "Sixties Going on Seventies," is also a chronicle of the shattering of cities, the problems of the left, the momentum of the right—and above all, the authentic voices of the people concerned. Sayre recorded all of these events and personalities in exhilarating prose, interspersed with her witty observations.