{"product_id":"the-portable-sixties-reader-isbn-9780142001943","title":"The Portable Sixties Reader","description":"From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In this anthology of more than one hundred selections of essays, poetry, and fiction by some of America’s most gifted writers, Ann Charters sketches the unfolding of this most turbulent decade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Portable Sixties Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is organized into thematic chapters, from the Civil Rights movement to the Anti-Vietnam movement, the Free Speech movement, the Counterculture movement, drugs and the movement into Inner Space, the Beats and other fringe literary movements, the Black Arts movement, the Women’s movement, and the Environmental movement. The concluding chapter, “Elegies for the Sixties,” offers tributes to ten figures whose lives—and deaths—captured the spirit of the decade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors include:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdward Abbey, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Richard Brautigan, Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Rachel Carson, Carlos Castenada, Bob Dylan, Betty Friedan, Nikki Giovanni, Michael Herr, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Hunter, Ken Kesey, Martin Luther King, Jr., Timothy Leary, Denise Levertov, Norman Mailer, Malcolm X, Country Joe McDonald, Kate Millet, Tim O’Brien, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem, Hunter S. Thompson, Calvin Trillin, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The Portable Sixties Reader - Edited with an Introduction by Ann Charters       Preface\u003cbr\u003eThe Sixties: A Chronology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Struggling to Be Free: The Civil Rights Movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJAMES BALDWIN - \"The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King\"\u003cbr\u003eMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. - \"Letter from a Birmingham Jail\"\u003cbr\u003eROSA PARKS - from \u003ci\u003eRosa Parks: My Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANNE MOODY - from \u003ci\u003eComing of Age in Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEUDORA WELTY - \"Where Is the Voice Coming From?\"\u003cbr\u003eCALVIN TRILLIN - \"The March\"\u003cbr\u003eBOB DYLAN - \"The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll\"\u003cbr\u003eDUDLEY RANDALL - \"Ballad of Birmingham\"\u003cbr\u003eROBERT LOWELL - \"For the Union Dead\"\u003cbr\u003eMALCOLM X - \"The Ballot or the Bullet\"\u003cbr\u003eALICE WALKER - \"The Civil Rights Movement: What Good Was It?\"\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES JOHNSON - from \u003ci\u003eDreamer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: End It! And End It Now!: The Anti-Vietnam Movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS MERTON - \"Original Child Bomb\"\u003cbr\u003eSUSAN SONTAG - \"What's Happening in America (1966)\"\u003cbr\u003eDENISE LEVERTOV - \"Life at War\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Overheard over S. E. Asia\"\u003cbr\u003eROBERT BLY - \"The Teeth Mother Naked at Last\"\u003cbr\u003eDAVID LANCE GOINES - \"Let Sleeping Dogs Lie\"\u003cbr\u003eANN CHARTERS - \"How to Maintain a Peaceful Demonstration\"\u003cbr\u003eNORMAN MAILER - from \u003ci\u003eThe Armies of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e: \"A Confrontation by the River\"\u003cbr\u003eROBERT CHATAIN - from \"On the Perimeter\"\u003cbr\u003eMICHAEL HERR - from \u003ci\u003eDispatches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTIM O'BRIEN - \"The Man I Killed\"\u003cbr\u003eRON KOVIC - from \u003ci\u003eBorn on the Fourth of July\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJANICE MIRIKITANI - \"Attack the Water\"\u003cbr\u003eYUSEF KOMUNYAKAA - \"Tunnels\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Hanoi Hannah\"\u003cbr\u003e\"'You and I Are Disappearing'\"\u003cbr\u003e\"2527th Birthday of the Buddha\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Prisoners\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Nude Interrogation\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Facing It\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Why Can We Not Begin Anew? The Free Speech Movement and Beyond\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDAVE MANDEL - \"Battle of Berkeley Talking Blues\"\u003cbr\u003eLEE FELSENSTEIN - \"Put My Name Down\"\u003cbr\u003eRICHARD KAMPF - \"Hey Mr. Newsman\"\u003cbr\u003eDAN PAIK - \"There's a Man Taking Names\"\u003cbr\u003eRICHARD SCHMORLEITZ AND DAN PAIK - \"I Walked Out in Berkeley\"\u003cbr\u003eDAVID LANCE GOINES - from \u003ci\u003eThe Free Speech Movement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Rules of the Game... When You're Busted\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Wanted: Hip Cops\"\u003cbr\u003eALLEN GINSBERG - \"Demonstration or Spectacle as Example, as Communication - or How to Make a March\/Spectacle\"\u003cbr\u003eHUNTER THOMPSON - from \u003ci\u003eHell's Angels\u003c\/i\u003e: \"The Dope Cabala and a Wall of Fire\"\u003cbr\u003eKAY BOYLE - \"Testament for My Students, 1968-1969\"\u003cbr\u003eANDREW GORDON - \"Smoking Dope with Thomas Pynchon: A Sixties Memoir\"\u003cbr\u003eDONALD BARTHELME - \"The Police Band\"\u003cbr\u003eABBIE HOFFMAN - \"Che's Last Letter\"\u003cbr\u003eWILLAM S. BURROUGHS - \"The Coming of the Purple Better One\"\u003cbr\u003eEDWARD SANDERS - \"Yeats in the Gas\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: \"I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die\": The Counterculture Movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOUNTRY JOE MCDONALD - \"I Feel Like I'm Fixin'-to-Die Rag\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Talking Non-Violence\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Superbird\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Janis\"\u003cbr\u003eDOUGLAS BLAZEK - \"THE little PHENOMENA\"\u003cbr\u003eEMMETT GROGAN - from \u003ci\u003eRingolevio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eR. G. DAVIS - \"A Minstrel Show or: Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel\"\u003cbr\u003eSALLY TOMLINSON - \"Psychedelic Rock Posters: History, Ideas, and Art\"\u003cbr\u003eMICHAEL LYDON - \"The Rolling Stones - At Play in the Apocalypse\"\u003cbr\u003eROBERT HUNTER - \"New Speedway Boogie\"\u003cbr\u003eSHERMAN ALEXIE - \"Because My Father Always Said He Was the Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Woodstock\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five: Adrift in the Age of Aquarius: Drugs and the Movement into Inner Space\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTIMOTHY LEARY - \"Turning On the World\"\u003cbr\u003eDIANE DI PRIMA - \"The Holidays at Millbrook - 1966\"\u003cbr\u003eCARLOS CASTANEDA - from \u003ci\u003eThe Teachings of Don Juan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eN. SCOTT MOMADAY - from \u003ci\u003eHouse Made of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKEN KESEY - \"Letters from Mexico\"\u003cbr\u003eLENNY BRUCE - \"Pills and Shit: The Drug Scene\"\u003cbr\u003eJIM CARROLL - from \u003ci\u003eThe Basketball Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Six: Living in the Revolution: The Beats and Some Other Literary Movements at the Edge\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES OLSON - \"The Hustings\"\u003cbr\u003eLAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI - Letters to Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Peter Orlovsky, 1961-1962\u003cbr\u003eALLEN GINSBERG - \"Kral Majales\"\u003cbr\u003eDIANE DI PRIMA - \"Revolutionary Letters #1, 3, 5, 8\"\u003cbr\u003eGARY SNYDER - \"Poke Hole Fishing After the March\"\u003cbr\u003eMICHAEL MCCLURE - from \u003ci\u003eGhost Tantras\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBOB KAUFMAN - \"Grandfather Was Queer, Too\"\u003cbr\u003eJOHN CLELLON HOLMES - \"Visitor: Jack Kerouac in Old Saybrook\"\u003cbr\u003eRICHARD BRAUTIGAN - \"The Cleveland Wrecking Yard\"\u003cbr\u003eCHARLES BUKOWSKI - from \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Dirty Old Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Seven: Out of the Fire: The Black Arts Movement and the Reshaping of Black Consciousness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLARRY NEAL - \"The Black Arts Movement\"\u003cbr\u003eDON L. LEE - from \u003ci\u003eThink Black 1965-1967\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHAKI R. MADHUBUTI - \"Malcolm Spoke\/who listened?\"\u003cbr\u003eETHERIDGE KNIGHT - \"The Idea of Ancestry\"\u003cbr\u003eAL YOUNG - \"Conjugal Visits\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A Dance for Ma Rainey\"\u003cbr\u003eNIKKI GIOVANNI - \"My Poem\"\u003cbr\u003eCAROLYN M. RODGERS - \"It Is Deep\"\u003cbr\u003eAMIRI BARAKA - \"Numbers, Letters\"\u003cbr\u003eISHMAEL REED - \"Eldridge Cleaver - Writer\"\u003cbr\u003eALLEN POLITE - \"Song\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Why They Are in Europe?\"\u003cbr\u003e[\"We Knew Our Loneliness and Told It\"]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Eight: With Our Arms Upraised: The Women's Movement and the Sexual Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBETTY FRIEDAN - from \u003ci\u003eThe Feminine Mystique\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKATE MILLETT - from \u003ci\u003eSexual Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMURIEL RUKEYSER - \"Poem\"\u003cbr\u003eSYLVIA PLATH - \"Lady Lazarus\"\u003cbr\u003eANNE SEXTON - \"The Abortion\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Addict\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator\"\u003cbr\u003eDENISE LEVERTOV - \"About Marriage\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Mutes\"\u003cbr\u003eDIANE WAKOSKI - \"Belly Dancer\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Ringles\"\u003cbr\u003eHETTIE JONES- from \u003ci\u003eHow I Became Hettie Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVALERIE SOLANAS - from \u003ci\u003eSCUM Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGLORIA STEINEM - \"A New Egalitarian Life Style\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Nine: In Defense of the Earth: The Environmental Movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRACHEL CARSON - from \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePETER MATTHIESSEN - from \u003ci\u003eWildlife in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDIANE DI PRIMA - \"Revolutionary Letter #16\"\u003cbr\u003eGARY SNYDER - \"What You Should Know to Be a Poet\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Revolution in the Revolution in the Revolution\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Smokey the Bear Sutra\"\u003cbr\u003eLEW WELCH - \"Preface to \u003ci\u003eHermit Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, The Bath\"\u003cbr\u003e[\"I Know a Man's Supposed to Have His Hair Cut Short\"]\u003cbr\u003e[\"Apparently Wasps\"]\u003cbr\u003e[\"I Burn Up the Deer in My Body\"]\u003cbr\u003e[\"Step Out onto the Planet\"]\u003cbr\u003e\"The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings\"\u003cbr\u003eWENDELL BERRY - \"To the Unseeable Animal\"\u003cbr\u003eEDWARD ABBEY - \"The Serpents of Paradise\"\u003cbr\u003eN. SCOTT MOMADAY - from \u003ci\u003eThe Way to Rainy Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Ten: Ten Elegies for the Sixties\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003efor Ernest Hemingway: ARCHIBALD MACLEISH - \"Hemingway\"\u003cbr\u003efor Marilyn Monroe: MICHAEL MCCLURE - from \u003ci\u003eGhost Tantras\u003c\/i\u003e, #39\u003cbr\u003efor John F. Kennedy: ERIC VON SCHMIDT - \"Kennedy Blues\"\u003cbr\u003efor Sylvia Plath: JOHN BERRYMAN - from \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, #172\u003cbr\u003efor Malcolm X: ETHERIDGE KNIGHT - \"The Sun Came\"\u003cbr\u003efor Martin Luther King, Jr.: DON L. LEE - \"Assassination\"\u003cbr\u003efor Robert F. Kennedy: LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI - \"Assassination Raga\"\u003cbr\u003efor Neal Cassady: ALLEN GINSBERG - \"On Neal's Ashes\"\u003cbr\u003efor Janis Joplin: MARILYN HACKER - \"Elegy\"\u003cbr\u003efor Jack Kerouac: \u003ci\u003eThe Harvard Crimson\u003c\/i\u003e - \"Kerouac, 1922-1969\"\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAlphabetical List of Authors and Titles\u003cb\u003eAnn Charters\u003c\/b\u003e, a Jack Kerouac and Beat Generation scholar, is professor of American Literature emerita at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. in 1966, she worked with Kerouac to compile his bibliography, and was the only biographer who interviewed him about the circumstances in which he wrote his books. She is the author of his first biography, \u003ci\u003eKerouac\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1973. She edited his posthumous poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eScattered Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the editor of numerous books on Beat and other literature, including \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Beat Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Sixties Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeat Down to Your Soul\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Jack Kerouac Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, and two volumes of Kerouac’s \u003ci\u003eSelected Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302294114533,"sku":"NP9780142001943","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142001943.jpg?v=1767741013","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-portable-sixties-reader-isbn-9780142001943","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}