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Nora Sayre guides us through our nation's transformation during an explosive decade. She explores the landscapes of

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Table of contents :
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Exercises in Upheaval
Democratic Death-In: Chicago, August 1968
Marching, 1969-1972
Conversations in Watts, January 1968
Black Panthers and White Radicals: Philadelphia, September 1970
Shooting Revolution, January 1970
Voices from the GI Movement, February 1971
Frank Rizzo and Philadelphia, June 1971
The John Birch Society, July 1971
Strikes and Lulls: Harvard, July 1972
Strikes and Lulls: Yale, May 1970 and June 1972
Five Years After Kent State, September 1975
Part II: Utopia and Inferno
Boarding in Heaven, April 1968
Wages of Wrath, May 1970
Part III: New York for Natives
New York for Natives, August 1969
Blackout, November 1965
The Cult of Ayn Rand, January 1966
Seductive Banks, February 1966
Paperback Gothics, October 1966
Requiem for the World-Journal-Tribune, May 1967
League for Spiritual Discovery, December 1966
College for Policemen, March 1967
Go With the Flow, July-August 1967
Memories of the East Village, April 1969
A Riot Averted, October 1967
New Yorkers and George Wallace, October 1968
Harlem on Many Minds, February 1969
Christmas Crises in Manhattan, December 1965
Adult Games, December 1968
Reels of California: A New Yorker's View, 1969-1972
Part IV: Theater and a Couple of Movies
Off-Off-Broadway, June 1967
Blacker Theater, January 1969
Rapture Unwrapped, August 1969
Knocking the Nation, October 1969
Head Pics, February 1970
Death On and Off Broadway, May 1970
Nostalging on Broadway, December 1971
Part V: Contradicting the Conventions
The Democrats, July 1972
The Republicans, August 1972
Afterword: Sports and the Weather Next
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Sixties 6oing on Seventies

A Volume in the Series

PERSPECTIVES ON THE SIXTIES Edited by Barbara L. Tischler

SERIES EDITORIAL BOARD Clayborne Carson, Stanford University William Chafe, Duke University Morris Dickstein, Queens College, CUNY Jose Limon, University of Texas, Austin Elaine May, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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