Name: the sixties unplugged,a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade (en Inglés)
Price: 41960.00 CLP
Availability: InStock
Author: deGroot, Gerard J.
ISBN: 9780674034631

portada the sixties unplugged,a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade (en Inglés)

the sixties unplugged,a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Gerard J. deGroot

Editorial

Harvard University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

528

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 16.0 x 3.5 cm

Peso

0.74 kg.

ISBN

0674034635

ISBN13

9780674034631

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Historia general y del mundo
Historia de américa

the sixties unplugged,a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade (en Inglés)

Gerard J. deGroot (Autor) · Harvard University Press · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 16 a 21 días háb.

$ 83.920$ 41.960

-50%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan 100 unidades

$ 41.960

Llega entre el 17 Jul y el 24 Jul a Santiago, Región Metropolitana. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "the sixties unplugged,a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade (en Inglés)"

"If you remember the Sixties," quipped Robin Williams, "you weren't there." That was, of course, an oblique reference to the mind-bending drugs that clouded perception--yet time has proven an equally effective hallucinogen. This book revisits the Sixties we forgot or somehow failed to witness. In a kaleidoscopic global tour of the decade, Gerard DeGroot reminds us that the "Ballad of the Green Beret" outsold "Give Peace a Chance," that the Students for a Democratic Society were outnumbered by Young Americans for Freedom, that revolution was always a pipe dream, and that the Sixties belong to Reagan and de Gaulle more than to Kennedy and Dubcek. The Sixties Unplugged shows how opportunity was squandered, and why nostalgia for the decade has obscured sordidness and futility. DeGroot returns us to a time in which idealism, tolerance, and creativity gave way to cynicism, chauvinism, and materialism. He presents the Sixties as a drama acted out on stages around the world, a theater of the absurd in which China's Cultural Revolution proved to be the worst atrocity of the twentieth century, the Six-Day War a disaster for every nation in the Middle East, and a million slaughtered Indonesians martyrs to greed.The Sixties Unplugged restores to an era the prevalent disorder and inconvenient truths that longing, wistfulness, and distance have obscured. In an impressionistic journey through a tumultuous decade, DeGroot offers an object lesson in the distortions nostalgia can create as it strives to impose order on memory and value on mayhem.