Description
Book SynopsisThe next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker ''decades'' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers.
The 1960s, the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century, were a time of tectonic shifts in all aspects of society from the March on Washington and the Second Vatican Council to the Summer of Love and Woodstock. No magazine chronicled the immense changes of the period better than The New Yorker. This capacious volume includes historic pieces from the magazine's pages that brilliantly capture the sixties, set alongside new assessments by some of today's finest writers.
Here are real-time accounts of these years of turmoil: Calvin Trillin reports on the integration of Southern universities, E. B. White and John Updike wrestle with the enormity of the Kennedy assassination and Jonathan Schell travels with American troops into the jungles of Vietnam. The m
Trade Review
The selections on display here certainly warrant the praise. As in previous volumes, the contributor list is an embarrassment of riches: Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Calvin Trillin, E.B. White, John Updike, Renata Adler, Sylvia Plath, and John McPhee, among other top names ... Bring on the '70s. * Kirkus Reviews *
This book has something for even the most curmudgeonly intellectual * Red Online *
