The New Yorker Book Of The 60s

<p><b>The next instalment in the acclaimed <i>New Yorker ''</i>decades'' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current <i>New Yorker </i>staffers.</b><br><br>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 <i>The New Yorker</i>. 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.<br><br>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