Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties

Dickstein, Morris

ISBN 10: 087140432X / ISBN 13: 9780871404329

Published by Liveright (edition Reissue), 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties
• Publisher: Liveright (edition Reissue)
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087140432X
• ISBN 13: 9780871404329
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reissue.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

The turbulent 1960s, almost from its outset, produced a dizzying display of cultural images and ideas that were as colorful as the psychedelic T-shirts that became part of its iconography. It was not, however, until Morris Dickstein's landmark Gates of Eden, first published in 1977, that we could fully grasp the impact of this raucous decade in American history as a momentous cultural epoch in its own right, as much as Jazz Age America or Weimar Germany. From Ginsberg and Dylan to Vonnegut and Heller, this lasting work brilliantly re-creates not only the intellectual and political ferment of the decade but also its disillusionment. What results is an inestimable contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century American culture.

About the Author

Morris Dickstein (1940--2021) was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of Gates of Eden, Dancing in the Dark, an award-winning cultural history of the Great Depression, and Why Not Say What Happened, a memoir.