A hard rain : America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost

The Resource A hard rain : America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost

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A hard rain : America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost

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America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost

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by Frye Gaillard

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America in the 1960s, our decade of hope, possibility, and innocence lost

Language

eng

Summary

"Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times - civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the Vietnam War and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change--music, literature, art, religion, and science--and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, Thomas Merton, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Berrigan Brothers. "There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning (and I seek to do some of that here), I hope to offer a sense of how it felt. I have tried provide within these pages one writer's reconstruction and remembrance of a transcendent era--one that, for better or worse, lives with us still."--Provided by publisher

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DLC

Dewey number

973.9

Index

index present

LC call number

E839

LC item number

.G35 2018

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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