ISBN: 9780553372120

By Todd Gitlin. Author Todd Gitlin. INTRODUCTION On New Year"s Eve, as 1958 slipped into 1959, I wasn"t especially aware I was living in the dead, dreary Fifties. I was a high school seni… More...

By Todd Gitlin. Author Todd Gitlin. INTRODUCTION On New Year"s Eve, as 1958 slipped into 1959, I wasn"t especially aware I was living in the dead, dreary Fifties. I was a high school senior about to turn sixteen. The Nile on eBay   FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE   The Sixties by Todd Gitlin The author, a student activist during the sixties, offers a personal perspective on the social and political changes of that decade. FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description 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 atthe 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. Author Biography Todd Gitlin, an American author of sixteen books, is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Whole World Is Watching and Inside Prime Time, and a novel, The Murder of Albert Einstein, as well as editor of Watching Television. His articles on politics and culture have appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New Republic, Dissent, Tikkun, and many other periodicals and newspapers. Excerpt from Book INTRODUCTION On New Year''s Eve, as 1958 slipped into 1959, I wasn''t especially aware I was living in the dead, dreary Fifties. I was a high school senior about to turn sixteen. I had little sense of living in any kind of "Fifties" at all; I wasn''t old enough to think in decades. I was simply living my life: striving for grades, wondering about sex, matching my exploits against those--real and imagined--of my rivals, watching the tides of adolescence rip through me. The only threshold I thought about was the one I would cross later that year, on the way to college. I was not living in history, but in biography. Which is not to say I was devoid of political interests. I read The New York Times and my parents were liberal. I stayed up late on election nights and rooted for Democrats almost as passionately as I followed the New York Giants baseball team (until they broke my heart by running off to San Francisco in 1958). I thought President Dwight David Eisenhower was a genial deadhead, a semiliterate fuddy-duddy who deserved to be chastised almost as much for excessive golfing and tangled sentences as for embracing General Details ISBN0553372122 Author Todd Gitlin Short Title SIXTIES REV/E Pages 544 Language English ISBN-10 0553372122 ISBN-13 9780553372120 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 973.922 Year 1993 Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Residence NY, US DOI 10.1604/9780553372120 AU Release Date 1993-07-01 NZ Release Date 1993-07-01 US Release Date 1993-07-01 UK Release Date 1993-07-01 Subtitle Years of Hope, Days of Rage Birth 1930 Affiliation Nottingham Trent University Position Author Qualifications Ph.D. Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Edition Description Revised edition Publication Date 1993-07-01 Audience General We've got thisAt The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it.With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICYNo questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERYNo matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENTPeace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:137744777; , Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], ISBN-13: 9780553372120, Book Title: The Sixties, Publication Year: 1993, Type: Textbook, Format: Paperback, Language: English, Publication Name: The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, Item Height: 229mm, Item Width: 152mm, Subject: History, History & Military, Item Weight: 567g, Number of Pages: 544 Pages, Bantam Interactive Technology Doubleday Dell Publishing Group INC International Concepts<

1993, ISBN: 9780553372120

Bantam, Paperback, Auflage: Revised, 544 Seiten, Publiziert: 1993-07-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780553372120, 0.74 kg, Verkaufsrang: 234977, United States, Americ… More...

Bantam, Paperback, Auflage: Revised, 544 Seiten, Publiziert: 1993-07-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 9780553372120, 0.74 kg, Verkaufsrang: 234977, United States, Americas, History, Subjects, Books, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Cultural, Anthropology, Politics & Social Sciences, Bantam, 1993<