Research Catalog

Title

The 60s : the story of a decade / The New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder ; introduction by David Remnick.

Publication

• New York : Random House, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Finder, Henry
• Remnick, David

Description

xiv, 705 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century--including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike--alongside new assessments of the 1960s by some of todays finest writers"--Publisher's website.

Uniform Title

New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)

Alternative Title

• Sixties
• Story of a decade

Subject

• Since 1945
• Nineteen sixties
• Civilization
• United States > Civilization > 1945-
• United States

Note

• Edition statement from CIP data.

Contents

Introduction / David Remnick -- Reckonings. Silent spring / Rachel Carson ; Letter from a region in my mind / James Baldwin ; Eichmann in Jerusalem / Hannah Arendt ; In cold blood : the corner / Truman Capote ; The village of Ben-Suc / Jonathan Schell ; Reflections : half out of our tree / Richard H. Rovere -- Confrontation. Civil rights. It doesn't seem quick to me (desegregating Durham) / Katharine T. Kinkead ; An education in Georgia (integrating a public university) ; March on Washington / Calvin Trillin ; Youth in revolt. Letter from Berkeley (the free speech movement) / Calvin Trillin ; The price of peace is confusion / Renata Adler ; The put-on / Jacob Brackman ; Letter from Chicago / Richard H. Rovere ; Harvard Yard / E.J. Kahn, Jr. -- American scenes. Pressure and possibility. Letter from Washington (the Cuba crisis) / Richard H. Rovere ; An inquiry into enoughness (visiting a missile silo) / Daniel Lang ; Letter from Washington (the great society) / Richard H. Rovere ; Lull (walking through Harlem) / Charlayne Hunter-Gault ; Demonstraton (a Biafra rally) / Jonathan Schell ; Hearing (feminists on abortion) / Ellen Willis ; Notes and comment (Woodstock) / James Stevenson and Faith McNulty ; Shots were fired. Note and comment (the assassination of John F. Kennedy) / Donald Malcolm, Lillian Ross, and E.B. White ; Views of a death (J.F.K's televised funeral) / Jonathan Miller ; Notes and comment (the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.) / Jacob Brackman and Terrence Malick ; Life and death in the global village / Michael J. Arlen ; Letter from Washington (the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy) / Richard H. Rovere -- Farther shores. Though tribe and tongue may differ (Nigerian independence) / Emily Hahn ; Letter from Havana / Hans Koningsberger ; Letter from Vatican City / Xavier Rynne ; On the seventh day they stopped (Six Day War) / Flora Lewis ; Letter from Prague / Joseph Wechsberg ; The events in May : a Paris notebook / Mavis Gallant -- New arrivals. Never before seen. Portable robot / F.S. Norman, Brendan Gill, and Thomas Meehan ; Telstar / Lillian Ross and Thomas Whiteside ; The big bang / John Updike ; Touch-tone / George W.S. Trow ; Sgt. Pepper / Lillian Ross ; Apollo 11 / Henry F.S. Cooper, Jr. ; Brief encounters. Ornette Coleman / Donald Stewart and Whitney Balliett ; Cassius Clay / A.J. Liebling ; Glenn Gould / Lillian Ross ; Brian Epstein / D. Lowe and Thomas Whiteside ; Roy Wilkins / Andy Logan ; Marshall McLuhan / Lillian Ross and Jane Kramer ; Joan Baez / Kevin Wallace ; Twiggy / Thomas Whiteside ; Ronald Reagan / James Stevenson ; Tom Stoppard / Geoffrey T. Hellman ; Simon & Garfunkel / James Stevenson ; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi / Ved Mehta ; The Who / Hendrik Hertzberg -- Artists & athletes. A tilted insight (Mike Nichols & Elaine May) / Robert Rice ; The crackin', shakin', breakin' sounds (Bob Dylan) / Nat Hentoff ; Paterfamilias (Allen Ginsberg) / Jane Kramer ; Levels of the game (Arthur Ashe, Clark Graebner) / John McPhee ; Days and nights with the unbored (World Series 1969) / Roger Angell -- Critics. The current cinema. All homage (Breathless) / Roger Angell ; After man (2001, a space odyssey) / Penelope Gilliatt ; The bottom of the pit (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) / Pauline Kael ; Art & architecture. False front or Cold-War concept / Lewis Mumford ; The nineteen-sixties : time in the museum / Harold Rosenberg ; Television. Television's war ; The bombs below go pop-pop-pop / Michael J. Arlen ; The theatre. Sweet birdie of youth (Bye bye Birdie) ; The theatre abroad : London / Kenneth Tynan ; Off Broadway (Oh! Calculla!) / Brendan Gill ; Music. Newport notes / Whitney Balliett ; Rock, etc. (packaging rock and post-rock) ; Rock, etc. (Woodstock) / Ellen Willis ; Whither? / Winthrop Sargeant ; Books. Our invisible poor (Michael Harrington's The other America) / Dwight MacDonald ; Polemic and the new reviewers / Renata Adler ; The author as librarian (J.L. Borges) / John Updike ; The first last time (William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner) / George Steiner ; The unfinished man (Philip Roth's Portnoy's complaint) / Brendan Gill ; The whole truth (Joyce Carol Oate's them) / L.E. Sissman -- Poetry. The heaven of animals / James Dickey ; Tulips / Sylvia Plath ; Next day / Randall Jarrell ; The broken home / James Merrill ; The Asians dying / W.S. Merwin ; At the airport / Howard Nemerov / Howard Nemerov ; Second glance at a jaguar / Ted Hughes ; Endless / Muriel Rekeyser ; Moon song / Anne Sexton ; Feel me / May Swenson -- Fiction. The ormolu clock / Muriel Spark ; A&P / John Updike ; The hunter's walking thoughts / Mavis Gallant ; The swimmer / John Cheever ; The Indian uprising / Donald Barthelme ; The key / Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Call Number

JFE 17-161

ISBN

• 9780679644835
• 0679644830

LCCN

2016013617

OCLC

936532343

Title

The 60s : the story of a decade / The New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder ; introduction by David Remnick.

Publisher

New York : Random House, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

Since 1945

Added Author

Finder, Henry, editor.

Remnick, David, writer of introduction.

Added Title

New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)

Research Call Number

JFE 17-161