The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties (Politically Incorrect Guides (Paperback))

Jonathan Leaf

ISBN 10: 1433254506 ISBN 13: 9781433254505

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

In this blast from the past, critically acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in history: the 1960s.

Did you know that the civil rights movement did little to improve the lives of average African Americans or that most Americans actively supported the Vietnam War and the draft? The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties proves the anti-Vietnam War sentiment and free love slogans that supposedly "defined" the decade were just a small part of the leftist counterculture. The mainstream culture was more politically incorrect--but you'll never hear that from a liberal pundit or read it in a politically correct textbook.

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About the Author

Jonathan Leaf is a journalist and has written for many publications, including the New York Post, the New Yorker, and National Review. He is also a critically acclaimed playwright, garnering rave reviews in the Wall Street Journal for his plays The Caterers and The Germans in Paris. He lives in New York.

Reviews

In the ever-maddening series of Politically Incorrect Guides, author/playwright Leaf takes on the most sacred of cows, particularly in the hearts and minds of Baby Boomers: the sixties. Leaf's purpose is to debunk the fiction that the decade was all peace, love, and flowers. Despite the book's truisms, however, the sixties were ultimately too complex a time to define with such generalities. But that doesn't make Leaf's well-researched refutations any less interesting. Rick Silversmith's voice is smoky and guttural--he makes the words snap, elongating syllables for emphasis, delivering the text with a certain angry earnestness that would sound equally at home in a dramatic context. J.S.H. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433254506
• ISBN 13: 9781433254505
• Binding: Audio CD