Opis: The New Yorker Book of the 60s - Finder Henry

The next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker 'decades' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers.

The 1960s, the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century, were a time of tectonic shifts in all aspects of society from the March on Washington and the Second Vatican Council to the Summer of Love and Woodstock. No magazine chronicled the immense changes of the period better than The New Yorker. This capacious volume includes historic pieces from the magazines pages that brilliantly capture the sixties, set alongside new assessments by some of todays finest writers.

Here are real-time accounts of these years of turmoil: Calvin Trillin reports on the integration of Southern universities, E. B. White and John Updike wrestle with the enormity of the Kennedy assassination and Jonathan Schell travels with American troops into the jungles of Vietnam. The murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., the fallout of the 1968 Democratic Convention, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Six-Day War: all are brought to immediate and profound life in these pages.

The New Yorker of the 1960s was also the wellspring of some of the truly timeless works of American journalism. Truman Capotes In Cold Blood, Rachel Carsons Silent Spring, Hannah Arendts Eichmann in Jerusalem and James Baldwins The Fire Next Time all first appeared in The New Yorker and are featured here. The magazine also published such indelible short story masterpieces as John Cheevers The Swimmer and John Updikes A & P, alongside poems by Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

Szczegóły: The New Yorker Book of the 60s - Finder Henry

Nazwa: The New Yorker Book of the 60s Story of a Decade
Autor: Finder Henry
Wydawnictwo: William Heinemann
Kod paskowy: 9780434022434
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 706
Format: 16.0x24.0cm
Oprawa: Twarda z obwolutą
Waga: 1 kg

Recenzje: The New Yorker Book of the 60s - Finder Henry