Gates Of Eden
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During the sixties, says Morris Dickstein, America seemed to be at the gates of Eden—verging on a new way of experiencing life, art & culture. In this provocative book, he discusses how we reached the gates & why, in the end, they remained closed. Beginning with Allen Ginsberg & the Beat poets of the late fifties, Dickstein traces the rise of a new sensibility in American thought, writing & music thru lively & incisive analyses of such sixties icons as Kurt Vonnegut, Bob Dylan, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Heller, Paul Goodman, Norman O. Brown & the Rolling Stones.
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Now, on the 20th anniversary of the book's original publication, Dickstein has written a new introduction, reassessing the period's achievements & failures, & providing a fresh perspective on the ways that the sixties continue to influence our politics & culture.
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