The Sixties Unplugged

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ISBN: 9780674034631 | 0674034635
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/30/2009

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This book revisits the Sixties we forgot or somehow failed to witness. In a kaleidoscopic global tour of the decade, Gerard DeGroot reminds us that the "Balled of the Green Beret" outsold "Give Peace a Chance", that the Students for a Democratic Society were outnumbered by Young Americans for Freedom, that revolution was always a pipe dream, and that the Sixties belong to Reagan and de Gaulle more than to Kennedy and Dubcek. Book jacket.

Introduction	p. 1
Preludes	p. 6
Torgau: A Brief Moment of Sanity	p. 6
At Home: The Generation Gap	p. 10
Premonitions	p. 19
On the Airwaves: Transistor Radios	p. 19
San Francisco: A Collection of Angels Howling at the World	p. 24
Worcester: The Pill	p. 28
The Congo: Democracy Murdered	p. 31
The Old Bailey: Lady Chatterley on Trial	p. 38
Washington: New Frontiers	p. 41
Hard Rain	p. 48
Sharpeville: Apartheid Is a Way of Death	p. 48
Bay of Pigs: It Seemed Like a Good Idea	p. 54
Berlin: The Wall	p. 60
Ap Bac: Bad News from a Place Called Vietnam	p. 68
Novaya Zemlya and Cuba: Big Bombs	p. 74
All Gone to Look for America	p. 79
Albany and Birmingham: Lessons of Nonviolence	p. 79
Port Huron: Students for a Democratic Society	p. 90
Washington: I Have a Dream	p. 98
Arlington National Cemetery: Kennedy and Vietnam	p. 105
Call Out the Instigators	p. 111
Duxbury: Rachel Carson	p. 111
Harlem: Malcolm X	p. 116
Havana: Che	p. 121
Miami: The Greatest	p. 125
Chelsea: Mary Quant	p. 133
Universal Soldiers	p. 140
The Tonkin Gulf: Carte Blanche	p. 140
Sinai: The Six-Day War	p. 145
Biafra: The Problem of Africa	p. 151
Guangxi Province: Cannibals for Mao	p. 155
And in the Streets...	p. 167
Margate: Mods versus Rockers	p. 167
Watts: Long Hot Summer	p. 176
Berkeley: Free Speech	p. 186
Amsterdam: Provo Pioneers	p. 195
Selma: Black Power	p. 203
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll	p. 208
Milibrook: Acid Dreams	p. 208
In Bed: Sex and Love	p. 215
Liverpool: The Beatles	p. 221
Manchester: The Battle for Bob Dylan	p. 228
Woodstock: A Festival, Yes; A Nation, No	p. 237
Everybody Get Together	p. 243
Sharon: Young Americans for Freedom	p. 243
London: Love Is All You Need	p. 247
San Francisco: It's Free Because It's Yours!	p. 253
Greenwich Village: Yippie!	p. 261
Oakland: The Black Panthers	p. 266
Delano: Boycott Grapes	p. 273
Turn, Turn, Turn	p. 281
Saigon: Tet	p. 281
Atlantic City: From Miss America to Ms. World	p. 286
Greenwich Village: Stonewall	p. 294
San Francisco: Summer of Rape	p. 301
Gone to Graveyards	p. 307
Memphis: The Death of King	p. 307
Prague: Short Spring	p. 309
Los Angeles: The Death of Hope	p. 313
Mexico City: Shooting Students	p. 322
You Say You Want a Revolution?	p. 331
Berlin: Rudi the Red	p. 331
New York: Up against the Wall, Motherfucker!	p. 340
Paris: Absurdists Revolt	p. 345
London: A Very British Revolution	p. 355
Wilted Flowers	p. 364
The Vatican: Humanae Vitae	p. 364
Mayfair: Casualties of the Cultural Revolution	p. 369
People's Park: The Future in a Vacant Lot	p. 373
San Diego: A Burning Desire to End the War	p. 377
Meet the New Boss	p. 386
Jakarta: A Perfect Little Coup	p. 386
Hollywood: Takin' Care of Business	p. 393
Los Angeles: A Goddamned Electable Person	p. 399
St. Louis: Curt Flood versus Baseball	p. 406
No Direction Home	p. 411
Altamont: The Day the Music Died	p. 411
Chappaquiddick: A Career Drowned	p. 416
The Moon: Magnificent Desolation	p. 420
Greenwich Village: You Don't Need a Weatherman	p. 426
Old Bailey: Another Obscenity Trial	p. 436
Epitaph: It's Life's Illusions I Recall	p. 445
Notes	p. 453
Bibliography	p. 476
Index	p. 493
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