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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 135065 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
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Duration: 9:23:55. |
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Read by Raymond Todd. |
| Summary |
Others may think of the1960s as the last good time, but Roger Kimball has no patience with false nostalgia. In his view, the sixties were the seedbed of excess and moral breakdown. He argues that the revolutionary assaults on "the system" that took place then still define the way we live now, with intellectually debased schools and colleges, morally chaotic sexual relations and family life, and a degraded media and popular culture. "The long march" is organized around incisive portraits of the architects of America's cultural revolution, among them Beat figures like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and celebrated or once-celebrated gurus like Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, Eldridge Cleaver, and Susan Sontag. In examining the lives and works of those who spoke for the 1960s, Kimball finds a series of cautionary tales, an annotated guidebook of wrong turns, dead-ends, and blind alleys that, tragically, became a roadmap to the present. |
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Nineteen sixties. -- Sound recordings.
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Nineteen seventies. -- Sound recordings.
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Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century. -- Sound recordings.
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Subculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. -- Sound recordings.
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Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century. -- Sound recordings.
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Social values -- United States -- History -- 20th century. -- Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Todd, Raymond.
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| ISBN |
0786151412 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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