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At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide '60s classics ranging from The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to Carlos Casteneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves. Represented as well are such works of revered elders as Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf and Henry David Thoreau's Walden. Beidler's coverage also extends to works of the early '70s that are clearly textual and spiritual extensions of the '60s: the Portola Institute's Last Whole Earth Catalog, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and others. An overview of reading and writing as both a product and prime mover of '60s culture precedes the main section. In his conclusion Beidler highlights the most notable efforts to document and interpret the era.
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Philip D. Beidler is a professor of English at the University of Alabama.
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Beidler (Rewriting America: Vietnam Authors in Their Generation, Univ. of Georgia Pr., 1991) celebrates the diversity of texts that both shaped the Zeitgeist of the Sixties and was born of that counterculture. It takes some insight (and memory) to confer on the anonymous, antidrug cautionary Go Ask Alice the same respect given Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man. Indeed, Beidler's survey at times is too nonselective: Did Jerry Rubin really have anything to say that Abbie Hoffman didn't? This is an academic discourse with appeal to a certain popular audience, and Beidler concludes with an excellent bibliographical essay. Serious students might wish he had written a more ambitious, thematic book; instead, his chosen figures are in alphabetical order, so that Kahlil Gibran and Allen Ginsberg are adjacent but not Betty Friedan and Kate Millett. Recommended for all academic libraries that value provocative nonfiction.
Scott H. Silverman, Bryn Mawr Coll. Lib., Pa.
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