"Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader

"Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader

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Editor: Alexander Bloom
Editor: Wini Breines
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-12-26
ISBN: 019514290X
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Summary: 4 Stars

I had a friend who recommended this book to me and I love it. I was a teenager in Europe during the late sixties. When I came back to America in 1969, I felt like I missed the entire decade and just now felt like I needed to find out what the sixties were all about.
This book is amazing. I'm not finished with it yet but it feels like it hit the core soul of the country at the time. Separate articles, opinions, thoughts really point out the conflicts at the time. Never realized what really happened in 1968 but now have a better perspective of a chaotic time.
If you want to get a grip on the times, this is one good book for reading. I'm feeling like I was really there and didn't miss a thing!
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Summary of "Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader

The second edition of "Takin' it to the streets" revises the comprehensive collection of primary documents of the 1960s that has become the leading reader on the era. Adopted nationwide, this anthology brings together representative writings, many of which have been unavailable for years or have never been reprinted. Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets, public speeches, and personal voices, the selections range from the Port Huron Statement and the NOW Bill of Rights to speeches by Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, to private letters from civil rights workers and Vietnam soldiers.
Introductions and headnotes by the editors highlight the importance of particular documents, relating them to each other and placing them within the broader context of the decade. Particular attention is paid to civil rights, Black Power, the counterculture, the women's movement, anti-war activity, and gay and lesbian struggles, as well as the conservative current that ran counter to more typical sixties movements. For this revised edition, the editors have added nearly thirty selections, including new readings on religion, the drug culture, the sexual revolution, gay rights, conservatism, and the Vietnam War experience. Covering an extremely popular period of history, "Takin' it to the streets" remains the most accessible and authoritative reader on an extraordinary decade, one unlike America had seen before or has experienced since.

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