num_pages: 397
description: The Purple Decades brings together the author's own selections from his list of critically acclaimed publications, including the complete text of Mau-Mauing and the Flak Catchers, his account of the wild games the poverty program encouraged minority groups to play.
language: English
title: The Purple Decades: 1960-1980
titlecomplete: The Purple Decades: 1960-1980
genres: History, Collections, Sociology, Short Stories, Humor, Literature, Journalism, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 245
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux