{"product_id":"sixties-unplugged-a-kaleidoscopic-history-of-a-disorderly-decade-paperback","title":"The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGerard J. deGroot\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If you remember the Sixties,\" quipped Robin Williams, \"you weren't there.\" That was, of course, an oblique reference to the mind-bending drugs that clouded perception--yet time has proven an equally effective hallucinogen. This book revisits the Sixties we forgot or somehow failed to witness. In a kaleidoscopic global tour of the decade, Gerard DeGroot reminds us that the \"Ballad of the Green Beret\" outsold \"Give Peace a Chance,\" that the Students for a Democratic Society were outnumbered by Young Americans for Freedom, that revolution was always a pipe dream, and that the Sixties belong to Reagan and de Gaulle more than to Kennedy and Dubcek. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sixties Unplugged\u003c\/i\u003e shows how opportunity was squandered, and why nostalgia for the decade has obscured sordidness and futility. DeGroot returns us to a time in which idealism, tolerance, and creativity gave way to cynicism, chauvinism, and materialism. He presents the Sixties as a drama acted out on stages around the world, a theater of the absurd in which China's Cultural Revolution proved to be the worst atrocity of the twentieth century, the Six-Day War a disaster for every nation in the Middle East, and a million slaughtered Indonesians martyrs to greed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sixties Unplugged\u003c\/i\u003e restores to an era the prevalent disorder and inconvenient truths that longing, wistfulness, and distance have obscured. In an impressionistic journey through a tumultuous decade, DeGroot offers an object lesson in the distortions nostalgia can create as it strives to impose order on memory and value on mayhem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.37 x 9.2 x 6.28 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42132541571207,"sku":"9780674034631","price":46.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4aa5b2107795e2a965b19f78a6be9e81.webp?v=1732627210","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/sixties-unplugged-a-kaleidoscopic-history-of-a-disorderly-decade-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}