><playback@earthlink.net> 08/22/96 12:42pm
>To approach the social movements of the 60s as arising from a certain
>body of ideas and assumptions, I was wondering what others might
>consider to be the texts that were considered "crucial" in the 60s.
Check out a recently published volume that seems germaine to your
purposes:
Philip D. Beidler, _Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in
the '60s_ (Athens & London: University of Georgia Press, 1994).
Beidler approaches his topic by examining a couple dozen authors whose
works he judges to have been canonical to the youthful, culturally aware
reading public. His short synopses of these writers' most popular books
are augmented by a rather idiosyncratic analysis of same, redeemed by a
very fine bibliography.
-- Michael Wm. Doyle
Department of History (o) 317-285-8732
Ball State University (f) 317-285-5612
Burkhardt Bldg. 233 (h) 317-287-1503
Muncie, IN 43706-0480 mwdoyle@bsu.edu