Life: The '60s

Hundreds of photographs from the archives of "Life" magazine capture the images of the 1960s

This volume continues a series of decade-by-decade selections of photographs from the archives of Life . No matter how close to the 1960s or how distant one feels, the decade has already become the domain of historians. Particularly in its condensation of events, this selection of 250 captioned photographs is rather haunting. The images are divided into several categories--Civil Rights, The Kennedy Years, Music, Protest, Fads and Fashions, Space, 1968, and Vietnam--with each category introduced by an essay. Readers will recognize a number of the more familiar photographs, such as those of Woodstock, the Kennedy assassination, and the moon landing, which have become cultural icons representing the 1960s. A good summary of the decade for those too young to remember from a magazine that was at the time an integral part of American life.
- Ann Copeland, formerly with Drew Univ. Lib., Madison, N.J.
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