Gates of Eden

American culture in the sixties

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Gates of Eden

American culture in the sixties

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American culture of the 1960s.

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Cover of: Gates of Eden
Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties
2015, Liveright Publishing Corporation
in English
Cover of: Gates of Eden
Gates of Eden: American culture in the sixties
2015, Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
in English
Cover of: Gates of Eden
Gates of Eden: American culture in the sixties
1997, Harvard University Press
in English - 1st Harvard University pbk. ed.
Cover of: Gates of Eden
Gates of Eden: American culture in the sixties
1989, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: Gates of Eden
Gates of Eden: American culture in the sixties
1977, Basic Books
in English

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Table of Contents

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

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.9
Library of Congress
E169.12 .D54 2015, E169.12.D54 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxv, 308 pages
Number of pages
308

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31055967M
ISBN 13
9780871404329
LCCN
2014042737

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