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 magazine's pages that brilliantly capture the
sixties, set alongside new assessments by some of today's 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 Capote's In Cold Blood, Rachel
Carson's Silent Spring, Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and
James Baldwin's 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 Cheever's 'The Swimmer'
and John Updike's 'A & P', alongside poems by Sylvia Plath and
Anne Sexton. The arts underwent an extraordinary transformation
during the decade, one mirrored by the emergence in The New Yorker
of critical voices as arresting as Pauline Kael and Kenneth Tynan.
Among the crucial cultural figures profiled here are Simon &
Garfunkel, Tom Stoppard, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Cassius Clay
(before he was Muhammad Ali), and Mike Nichols and Elaine May. The
assembled pieces are given fascinating contemporary context by
current New Yorker writers, including Jill Lepore, Malcolm Gladwell
and David Remnick. The result is an incomparable collective
portrait of a truly galvanising era. With contributions from:
Truman Capote, John Updike, E.B. White, Rachel Carson, James
Baldwin, Jonathan Schell, Dwight Macdonald, Renata Adler, Hannah
Arendt, Pauline Kael, AJ Liebling, Nat Hentoff, Calvin Trillin,
Xavuer Rynne, John McPhee, Anthony Hiss and more.
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