Time It Was: American Stories from the Sixties

ISBN-13: 9780131840775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 464 str.

Karen Manners Smith; Tim Koster

Opis

What was it like to live through the Sixties? The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to dramatic adventures, the writers convey what it felt like to land a helicopter in the middle of a firefight in Vietnam, to be beaten and jailed for trying to integrate restaurants in the American South, to run for cover when soldiers opened fire on a campus peace rally in Ohio. Other stories describe the writers' experiences organizing farm workers with Cesar Chavez, campaigning to elect Barry Goldwater, striking for Free Speech at Berkeley, living in a commune, joining the women's liberation movement, becoming caught up in a religious cult, or camping in the rain at Woodstock.

O autorze

Karen Manners Smith, Emporia State University
Tim Koster, Pacific Information Resources, Inc. dba Search Systems