The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage

Todd Gitlin

ISBN 10: 0553052330 / ISBN 13: 9780553052336

Published by Bantam Books, 1987

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A Bantam Book / November 1987. 513pp. Quality Paperback Book Club edition. Bright & tight copy, unread, in Very Good condition (slight discolor/stain on back cover corner & fore edge foxing, o/w unmarked). "Say 'the Sixties' and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world--either through music, drugs, and universal love or by 'putting their bodies on the line' against injustice and war. [] Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade--a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam war. Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation in all its glory and tragedy." [publisher copy] "An extraordinary blend of vivid recollection and brilliant, relentlessly honest analysis. It ought to be the bench mark against which all future accounts of 'the movement' will be measured."--Jeff Greenfield. "THE SIXTIES . . . has the narrative power of a fine novel and is at the same time a cogent work of historical analysis. In the first book about the Movement to be written by one of its leaders, Todd Gitlin brings together the seemingly diverse themes of that decade--civil rights, the Vietnam War, women's liberation, the revolution in Western culture--and shows how they came together to produce an experience unprecedented in American life. Gitlin's command of these themes is unexcelled; his ability to make the period live again, from tear gas to rock and roll, is masterful."--Carl Oglesby, former president of SDS. "Todd Gitlin's admirable book tells more of the truth about its complex, quintessentially American subject than any book I know."--Susan Sontag. "A tornado recollected in tranquility with candor, analytical brilliance and a poet's vision."--Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers whistleblower. VG trade paperback (QPBC) w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, clean pages, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine. Quite presentable for a nigh-40-year-old paperback.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553052330
• ISBN 13: 9780553052336
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition, Book Club Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 6W x 9H x 1.3D inches 6 inches width by 9 inches height by 1.3 inches depth
• Weight: 27.04 ounces

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Say "the Sixties" and the images start  coming, images of a time when all authority was  defied and millions of young Americans thought they  could change the world--either through music,  drugs, and universal love or by "putting their  bodies on the line" against injustice and  war.



Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded  writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at  the University of California, Berkeley, has written  an authoritative and compelling account of this  supercharged decade--a decade he helped shape as an  early president of Students for a Democratic  Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national  demonstration against the Vietnam war. Part  critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration,  and part meditation, this critically acclaimed  work resurrects a generation on all its glory and  tragedy.


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e Sixties" and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world--either through music, drugs, and universal love or by "putting their bodies on the line" against injustice and war.



Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade--a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam war. Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation on all its gl