Sixties | Sixties
Oct.12.2009
Through the lives of Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Bob Zellner, Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and their contemporaries, The Shadows of Youth provides a carefully woven group biography of the activists who—under the banner of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee—...
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May.20.2009
This is Jenny Diski at her essayistic best in a highly personal and entertaining exploration of the twentieth century’s most colourful decade.
Many books have been written on the Sixties: tributes to music and fashion, sex, drugs and revolution. In The Sixties, Jenny Diski breaks the mould, wryly...
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Dec.30.2008
Some girls grow up with Barbie dolls and E-Z Bake ovens, but not Martha. She has Scorpion Tail, Beelzebub, and the seven battles of the Apocalypse to deal with in addtion to a mother who reads bedtime stories from Fox's Book of Martyrs.
Martha lives in working class Arkansas of the late...
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Dec.30.2007
Get out the glitter and rhinestones--the Cockettes are back!
Founding member Pam Tent (Sweet Pam) brings the flamboyant ensemble of counterculture radicals who decked out in drag and glitter for a series of legendary midnight musicals at San Francisco's Palace Theatre back to screaming, swishing,...
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