Gates of Eden
Subtitle: American culture in the sixties
By: Morris Dickstein
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780871404329
Subjects: Civilization; History; Social conditions
Notes: Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The view from the end of the century; title: Preface to the original edition; title: I. Breaking out : new shoots from old roots; title: Prologue: Allen Ginsberg and the sixties; title: Cold War blues : politics and culture in the fifties; title: The rise of a new sensibility, or, How the fifties broke up; title: II. Breaking through : the hidden history of the sixties; title: Black humor and history : the early sixties; title: The working press, the literary culture, and the new journalism; title: Black writing and Black nationalism : four generations; title: The age of rock revisited; title: III. Breaking down, or, How it all came out; title: Fiction at the crossroads : dilemmas of the experimental writer; title: Epilogue: Remembering the sixties, surviving the seventies.