The Sixties
Subtitle: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Bantam
Published: July 1, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780553372120
Subjects: World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; c 1960 to c 1970; Radicals and radicalism; History - U.S; History: American; USA; United States; United States - 20th Century; United States - 20th Century/60s; History / United States / 20th Century; History; 1961-1969; 20th century; Radicalism
First sentence: Groping for a sense of the zeitgeist has been an intellectual stock-in-trade since the ancient Greek thinkers, who discovered they were living in history.
Description: "Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade-- a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam War. Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation in all its glory and tragedy."--Page 4 of cover.