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Author De Groot, Gerard J., 1955-

Title The sixties unplugged : a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade / Gerard J. DeGroot.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  909.826 DEGROOT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  909.82 D36    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  909.826 DEGROOT    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  909.826 D36S    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  909.826 DE GROOT    Check Shelf
Description xi, 508 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-492) and index.
Contents Preludes -- Premonitions -- Hard rain -- All gone to look for America -- Call out the instigators -- Universal soldiers -- And in the streets -- Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll -- Everybody get together -- Turn, turn, turn -- Gone to graveyards -- You say you want a revolution -- Wilted flowers -- Meet the new boss -- No direction home -- Epitaph: It's life's illusions I recall.
Summary [This text] restores to an era the prevalent disorder and inconvenient truths that longing, wistfulness, and distance have obscured. In [The text, the author] offers an object lesson in the distortions nostalgia can create as it strives to impose order on memory and value on mayhem. -Dust jacket.
Subject Nineteen sixties.
ISBN 9780674027862 hardback alkaline paper
0674027868 hardback alkaline paper
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