Scriptures for a generation
Subtitle: what we were reading in the '60s
By: Philip D. Beidler.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: American literature -- 20th century -- Bibliography; Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- History -- 1961-1969 -- Sources -- Bibliography
Description: At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide '60s classics ranging from The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to Carlos Casteneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves. Represented as well are such works of revered elders as Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf and Henry David Thoreau's Walden.

Beidler's coverage also extends to works of the early '70s that are clearly textual and spiritual extensions of the '60s: the Portola Institute's Last Whole Earth Catalog, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and others. An overview of reading and writing as both a product and prime mover of '60s culture precedes the main section. In his conclusion Beidler highlights the most notable efforts to document and interpret the era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-243) and index.