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"Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader

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I had a friend who recommended this book to me and I love it. I was a teenager in Europe during the late sixties. When I came back to America in 1969, I felt like I missed the entire decade and just now felt like I needed to find out what the sixties were all about.
This book is amazing. I'm not finished with it yet but it feels like it hit the core soul of the country at the time. Separate articles, opinions, thoughts really point out the conflicts at the time. Never realized what really happened in 1968 but now have a better perspective of a chaotic time.
If you want to get a grip on the times, this is one good book for reading. I'm feeling like I was really there and didn't miss a thing!

I am surprised to see such positive reviews of this book. While the historical element of the text was enjoyable, I felt that the book was heavily weighted to support a certain opinion. While I typically consider myself and Independent I got a little tired of the liberal rhetoric that appeared again and again in every into. In addition, I do not feel that the articles were chosen to represent what was actually occuring during the 60's but rather to paint a very deliberate picture. To portray the U.S. as being so black or white (good guys and bad guys) is a disapointment and it ignores the complexity of us as individuals. My biggest complaint is the portrayal of the Vietnam War and veterans in general. To ignore the soldiers who fought believing in a "nobel cause" is an injustice.

Again, I do not support either side but feel that this is a misrepresentation as a whole...I hope that if you do read this book that it is not the only one that you read on the sixties.