One can not understand the Sixties without understanding the
Fifties. The Fifties were the first time the American youth had
excess freedom. Before the 50's they worked on the family farm;
dusk till dawn, slaved in the sweat shops, 12 ours a day, six days
a week; starved in the depression; and fought not knowing it they
would be alive the next day in World War II and the Korean War.
Than, suddenly, came the fifties. First there were the beatniks
lead by their spiritual leader Williams Burrough, than the bad boys
of rock and roll Elvis, Johnny Cochran, and Jerry Lee Lewis
prevailed. This excess freedom, led to freedom to think, freedom to
question, freedom to challenge. In the sixties, the peaceful
non-violent Civil Rights Movement, progressed to the Black Power
and the Black Panthers. The Civil Rights Movement was followed by
the creeping involvement in Vietnam, first with military advisors,
than massive troop deployments to Vietnam resulting in death,
violence, destruction, and . then disillusion. And complementing
the war, initially, the educational teach-ins led to massive
antiwar demonstrations, to the Weathermen busting windows on
Michigan Ave and planting bombs in the Capital. This all digressed
to the second civil war which recently resurfaced with the Iraq
War, I afraid now is progressing to the third civil war. Throughout
the book we follow the characters lives from romantic innocence to
reality to Expressionism. Some fighting in Vietnam, some protesting
the war, some marching for civil rights, friendships destroyed and
than repaired. Some lives lost, some destroyed, some survived, but
all caught up in the hubris characterized by a gross failure of
governmental leadership. Those betrayed the most have their names
on a black granite wall in Washington DC.
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