{"product_id":"the-portable-sixties-reader-9780142001943","title":"The Portable Sixties Reader","description":"From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America's most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Portable Sixties Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is organized into thematic chapters, from the Civil Rights movement to the Anti-Vietnam movement, the Free Speech movement, the Counterculture movement, drugs and the movement into Inner Space, the Beats and other fringe literary movements, the Black Arts movement, the Women's movement, and the Environmental movement. The concluding chapter, \"Elegies for the Sixties,\" offers tributes to ten figures whose lives--and deaths--captured the spirit of the decade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors include: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdward Abbey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Richard Brautigan, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Rachel Carson, Carlos Castenada, Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Herr, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Millet, Tim O'Brien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn Charters\u003c\/b\u003e, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, \u003ci\u003eKerouac\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1973. She edited his posthumous poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eScattered Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the editor of numerous books on Beat and other literature, including \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Beat Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Sixties Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeat Down to Your Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Jack Kerouac Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, and two volumes of Kerouac's \u003ci\u003eSelected Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923908792594,"sku":"9780142001943","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_17e29faf-9987-45d7-a9e5-590f566bae11.jpg?v=1738964724","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-portable-sixties-reader-9780142001943","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}