The Portable Sixties Reader

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Penguin, 31 déc. 2002 - 672 pages
From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America’s most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade.

The Portable Sixties Reader is organized into thematic chapters, from the Civil Rights movement to the Anti-Vietnam movement, the Free Speech movement, the Counterculture movement, drugs and the movement into Inner Space, the Beats and other fringe literary movements, the Black Arts movement, the Women’s movement, and the Environmental movement. The concluding chapter, “Elegies for the Sixties,” offers tributes to ten figures whose lives—and deaths—captured the spirit of the decade.

Contributors include:

Edward Abbey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Richard Brautigan, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Rachel Carson, Carlos Castenada, Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Herr, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Millet, Tim O’Brien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and more.

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III
6
IV
24
V
41
VI
45
VII
51
VIII
57
IX
63
X
65
LXX
400
LXXI
404
LXXII
408
LXXIII
412
LXXIV
414
LXXV
420
LXXVI
421
LXXVII
429

XI
67
XII
70
XIII
80
XIV
86
XV
108
XVI
119
XVII
124
XVIII
127
XIX
128
XX
137
XXI
141
XXII
155
XXIII
159
XXIV
168
XXV
171
XXVI
176
XXVII
179
XXVIII
181
XXIX
183
XXX
184
XXXI
185
XXXIII
186
XXXIV
187
XXXV
196
XXXVI
197
XXXVII
199
XXXVIII
200
XL
202
XLI
205
XLII
207
XLIII
208
XLIV
212
XLV
221
XLVI
228
XLVII
238
XLVIII
241
XLIX
243
L
253
LI
261
LII
263
LIII
264
LIV
265
LV
266
LVI
270
LVII
276
LVIII
291
LIX
306
LX
315
LXI
317
LXII
331
LXIII
343
LXIV
350
LXV
362
LXVI
367
LXVII
377
LXVIII
388
LXIX
397
LXXVIII
435
LXXIX
446
LXXX
454
LXXXI
456
LXXXII
458
LXXXIII
460
LXXXIV
462
LXXXV
464
LXXXVI
466
LXXXVII
469
LXXXVIII
471
LXXXIX
478
XC
484
XCI
486
XCIII
493
XCIV
504
XCV
512
XCVI
513
XCVII
518
XCVIII
520
XCIX
522
C
523
CI
525
CII
527
CIII
528
CIV
531
CV
536
CVI
539
CVII
547
CVIII
549
CIX
559
CX
560
CXI
561
CXII
562
CXIII
565
CXIV
567
CXV
568
CXVI
569
CXVIII
570
CXIX
571
CXX
572
CXXI
574
CXXII
581
CXXIII
589
CXXIV
590
CXXV
591
CXXVI
593
CXXVII
594
CXXVIII
595
CXXIX
596
CXXX
600
CXXXI
601
CXXXII
607
CXXXIII
615
CXXXIV
623
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Ann Charters, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, Kerouac, in 1973. She edited his posthumous poetry collection, Scattered Poems. She is also the editor of numerous books on Beat and other literature, including The Portable Beat Reader, The Portable Sixties Reader, Beat Down to Your Soul, The Portable Jack Kerouac Reader, and two volumes of Kerouac’s Selected Letters.

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