The Portable Sixties Reader; Edited with an Introduction by Ann Charters

Charters, Ann, editor

ISBN 10: 0142001945 / ISBN 13: 9780142001943

Published by Penguin, New York, 2003

About this Item

xli, [3], 628 p.; 20 cm. Paperback with illustration cover. Excellent collection of writing from and about the 1960s in the United States, addressing the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, the women's movement, the environmental movement, and free speech and the arts, including lyrics to songs. Includes an alphabetical list of author and titles. In Near Fine Condition: edges lightly rubbed; clean and tight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Portable Sixties Reader; Edited with an Introduction by Ann Charters
• Publisher: Penguin, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0142001945
• ISBN 13: 9780142001943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • American History
  • Women's History & Biography
  • Women Writers

About this title

Synopsis

From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America’s most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade.

The Portable Sixties Reader is organized into thematic chapters, from the Civil Rights movement to the Anti-Vietnam movement, the Free Speech movement, the Counterculture movement, drugs and the movement into Inner Space, the Beats and other fringe literary movements, the Black Arts movement, the Women’s movement, and the Environmental movement. The concluding chapter, “Elegies for the Sixties,” offers tributes to ten figures whose lives—and deaths—captured the spirit of the decade.

Contributors include:

Edward Abbey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Richard Brautigan, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Rachel Carson, Carlos Castenada, Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Herr, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Millet, Tim O’Brien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and more.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the Author

Ann Charters, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, Kerouac, in 1973. She edited his posthumous poetry collection, Scattered Poems. She is also the editor of numerous books on Beat and other literature, including The Portable Beat Reader, The Portable Sixties Reader, Beat Down to Your Soul, The Portable Jack Kerouac Reader, and two volumes of Kerouac’s Selected Letters.