Sixties Going On Seventies
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
At the turbulent crossroads of two defining American decades, Nora Sayre stood as a sharp-eyed witness to the cultural and political upheavals that reshaped a nation. Sixties Going on Seventies chronicles the era's most volatile moments with journalistic precision and literary flair — from utopian dreams gone wrong and women's liberation gaining momentum, to the mock-ups of John Lindsay, George Wallace's New York campaign, nude theatre, underground cinema, and the explosive Republican and Democratic conventions of summer 1972. Sayre does not merely report; she immerses the reader in the lived texture of an age defined by contradiction and possibility. Sayre's writing sits at the rare intersection of cultural criticism and personal witness, presenting history not as a series of abstract forces but as a collection of vivid human moments. Her prose is at once sardonic and compassionate, capturing the idealism and disillusionment that coursed through American life with equal clarity. A vital document for anyone seeking to understand how the radical energies of the sixties dissolved — and mutated — into the complicated realities of the seventies, this collection leaves the reader wondering whether the revolution was ever truly lost, or simply waiting to resurface.
Author: Nora Sayre
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Arbor House
Genre: American history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Usual shelf-wear.
At the turbulent crossroads of two defining American decades, Nora Sayre stood as a sharp-eyed witness to the cultural and political upheavals that reshaped a nation. Sixties Going on Seventies chronicles the era's most volatile moments with journalistic precision and literary flair — from utopian dreams gone wrong and women's liberation gaining momentum, to the mock-ups of John Lindsay, George Wallace's New York campaign, nude theatre, underground cinema, and the explosive Republican and Democratic conventions of summer 1972. Sayre does not merely report; she immerses the reader in the lived texture of an age defined by contradiction and possibility. Sayre's writing sits at the rare intersection of cultural criticism and personal witness, presenting history not as a series of abstract forces but as a collection of vivid human moments. Her prose is at once sardonic and compassionate, capturing the idealism and disillusionment that coursed through American life with equal clarity. A vital document for anyone seeking to understand how the radical energies of the sixties dissolved — and mutated — into the complicated realities of the seventies, this collection leaves the reader wondering whether the revolution was ever truly lost, or simply waiting to resurface.