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Paperback. How did the 1950s become oThe Sixtieso? This is the question at the heart of Daniel HorowitzAEs On the Cusp . Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics of social and political change through the experiences of a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BM; JFSR1; JNK; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
How did the 1950s become “The Sixties”? This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitz’s On the Cusp. Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics of social and political change through the experiences of a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort. A Jewish “townie” from New Haven when he entered Yale College in fall 1956, Horowitz reconstructs the undergraduate career of the class of 1960 and follows its story into the next decade. He begins by looking at curricular and extracurricular life on the all-male campus, then ranges beyond the ... Read more
How did the 1950s become “The Sixties”? This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitz’s On the Cusp. Part personal memoir, part collective biography, and part cultural history, the book illuminates the dynamics of social and political change through the experiences of a small, and admittedly privileged, generational cohort. A Jewish “townie” from New Haven when he entered Yale College in fall 1956, Horowitz reconstructs the undergraduate career of the class of 1960 and follows its story into the next decade. He begins by looking at curricular and extracurricular life on the all-male campus, then ranges beyond the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341457
SKU
V9781625341457
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99-15
About Daniel Horowitz
Daniel Horowitz is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies Emeritus at Smith College, USA. He is author of Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998) and The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939–1979 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).
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