Description: Widely admired as the definitive cultural history of the 1960s, this groundbreaking work finally reappears in a new edition.
Brief description: Morris Dickstein (1940--2021) was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and the author of Gates of Eden, Dancing in the Dark, an award-winning cultural history of the Great Depression, and Why Not Say What Happened, a memoir.
Review Quotes: Dickstein's study effectively carries us back to those times when we really believed that protest might stop a horrific war...[T]he best book on that exhilarating, depressing decade.-- "Boston Globe"