The Sixties: Big Ideas, Small Books - Paperback

$20.00

The Sixties: Big Ideas, Small Books - Paperback

Name: The Sixties: Big Ideas, Small Books - Paperback
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SKU: 9780312427214
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by Jenny Diski

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Book Overview

A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and personal meaning of that turbulent era.

What was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out, taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating, and spending time in mental hospitals. Now, as Diski herself turns sixty years old, she examines what has been lost in the purple haze of nostalgia and selective memory of that era, what endures, and what has always been the same. From the vantage point of London, she takes stock of the Sexual Revolution, the fashion, the drug culture, and the psychiatric movements and education systems of the day. What she discovers is that the ideas of the sixties often paved the way for their antithesis, and that by confusing liberation and libertarianism, a new kind of radicalism would take over both in the UK and America.

Witty, provocative, and gorgeously written, Jenny Diski promises to feed your head with new insights about everything that was, and is, the sixties.

ISBN	9780312427214
Author	Jenny Diski
Publisher	Picador USA
Genre	Biography and History
Format	Paperback
Published	September 2009
Language	ENG- English
Pages	160
Weight	1.0 lb
Print Size	Standard Print