Charters' anthology may be the first book about the Sixties that hasn't made me want to braid my hair, paint peace signs on my cheeks, and go stick a daisy in the barrel of a gun. It is, unlike many of its counterparts, a grown-up book. Wiser. Wryer. No longer the cherubic student activist clutching a tiny photo of Che Guevara. This book is 30 years past any sort of giddy optimism. This book is my dad. Get him talking about the Sixties and I don't care how many times you've read "Be Here Now," you will start to feel disillusioned.
The Oregonian:
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God give us strength to be as alive as Kerouac was.
Posted by: Free PeeWee! | January 16, 2003 4:19 PM
How to Create a Sixties Reader by Ann Charters.
Posted by: sudama | May 3, 2003 9:26 AM