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Hard Rain, A
Frye Gaillard
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Politikwissenschaft
Beschreibung
“There are many different ways to remember the sixties,” Frye Gaillard writes, “and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning of the decade, I hope to offer a sense of how it felt to have lived it. A Hard Rain is one writer’s reconstruction and remembrance of a transcendent era—one that, for better or worse, lives with us still.”
With A Hard Rain Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller’s eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times: civil rights, black power, women’s liberation, the war in Vietnam, and the protests movements against it.
Gaillard also examines the cultural manifestations of change in the era—music, literature, art, religion, and science—and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, Thomas Merton, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Berrigan Brothers. As Gaillard remembers these influential people, he weaves together a compelling story about an iconic American decade of change, conflict, and progress.
Kundenbewertungen
Thurgood Marshall, Warren Commission, affirmative action, environmentalism, Woodstock, Andy Warhol, religion, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Supreme Court, the Berrigan Brothers, Billy Graham, farm workers, Selma, Thomas Merton, John Lewis, busing, James Baldwin, John F. Kennedy, Todd Gitlin, art, Johnny Cash, Vietnam War, Chicago, Jimi Hendrix, Cuban Missile Crisis, Gloria Steinem, George Wallace, atheism, peace protests, Julian Bond, Robert Kennedy, white backlash, Janis Joplin, Cleveland, Freedom Summer, Stonewall, the Beatles, Jonathan Kozol, voting rights, the Pill, American life, Gay Rights, Sound of Music, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Earthrise, Joan Baez, Martin Luther King Jr., Vanderbilt University, United States, Birmingham, Roger Maris, Bob Dylan, Ole Miss, moon shot, NASA, civil rights, Truman Capote, Barry Goldwater, Muhammad Ali, political and social movements, women’s liberation, Angela Davis, peace movement, science, space race, Apollo Program, black power, Rachel Carson