The 60s: The Story of a Decade (New Yorker: The Story of a

The 60s: The Story of a Decade (New Yorker: The Story of a Decade)

The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth centuryâ€”including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updikeâ€”alongside new assessments of the 1960s by some of todayâ€™s finest writers.

Here are real-time accounts of these years of turmoil: Calvin Trillin reports on the integration of Southern universities, E. B. White and John Updike wrestle with the enormity of the Kennedy assassination, and Jonathan Schell travels with American troops into the jungles of Vietnam. The murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., the fallout of the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Six-Day War: All are brought to immediate and profound life in these pages.

The New Yorker of the 1960s was also the wellspring of some of the truly timeless works of American journalism. Truman Capoteâ€™s In Cold Blood, Rachel Carsonâ€™s Silent Spring, Hannah Arendtâ€™s Eichmann in Jerusalem, and James Baldwinâ€™s The Fire Next Time all first appeared in The New Yorker and are featured here. The magazine also published such indelible short story masterpieces as John Cheeverâ€™s â€œThe Swimmerâ€ and John Updikeâ€™s â€œA & P,â€ alongside poems by Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

The arts underwent an extraordinary transformation during the decade, one mirrored by the emergence in The New Yorker of critical voices as arresting as Pauline Kael and Kenneth Tynan. Among the crucial cultural figures profiled here are Simon & Garfunkel, Tom Stoppard, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, andÂ Muhammad Ali (when he was still Cassius Clay).

The assembled pieces are given fascinating contemporary context by current New Yorker writers, including Jill Lepore, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Remnick. The result is an incomparable collective portrait of a truly galvanizing era.

Praise for The 60s: The Story of a Decade

â€œThe third installment in the esteemed magazineâ€™s superb decades series . . . The contributor list is an embarrassment of riches. . . . The hits continue. Bring on the '70s.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

â€œ[The 60s] deserves a lasting place on oneâ€™s shelves. Like its predecessors in the series, this collection is a time capsule and a keeper.â€â€”Booklist
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber part_0679644830
ReleaseDate 2016-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679644835

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	part_0679644830
ReleaseDate	2016-10-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780679644835

The 60s: The Story of a Decade (New Yorker: The Story of a Decade)