Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s
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. (Cleveland Press)A first-rate book that will last for a long time. (Nicholas von Hoffman)A witty and incisive chronicle of the Pirandello sixties. . . . Seldom have reality and fantasy been so intertwined. (Studs Terkel)Marvelous, funny, and wise. (David Halberstam)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. (Chicago Sun-Times)O’Neill’s 1971 study blows away some of the smoke-screen surrounding that turbulent era. (Michael RogersLibrary Journal)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. CoxMidwest Book Review)Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960sis both readable and involving. (Bookwatch)