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Author De Groot, Gerard J., 1955-

Title The sixties unplugged : a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade / Gerard J. DeGroot.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  909.826 D365s 2008    ---  Available
Description xi, 508 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 476-492) and index.
Contents Preludes -- Premonitions -- Hard rain -- All gone to look for America -- Call out the instigators -- Universal soldiers -- And in the streets -- Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll -- Everybody get together -- Turn, turn, turn -- Gone to graveyards -- You say you want a revolution -- Wilted flowers -- Meet the new boss -- No direction home -- Epitaph: It's life's illusions I recall.
Summary "The sixties unplugged restores to an era the prevalent disorder and inconvenient truths that longing, wistfulness, and distance have obscured ... DeGroot offers an object lesson in the distortions nostalgia can create as it strives to impose order on memory and value on mayhem"--Dust jacket.
Subject Nineteen sixties.
ISBN 0674027868 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780674027862 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NZ1 11643082
NLGGC 310579082
AU@ 000042235164

 
    
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