The Quotable Sixties

This volume takes a look at some of the most humorous, memorable, and outrageous statements said during, and about, this remarkable decade. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599210266
• ISBN13: 9781599210261
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.3" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

The words that drove a series of dramatic changes, overall for the better

Conservatives bash the sixties with great relish, seeming to forget what they were all about. Those people referred to as the counterculture, which opposed the American involvement in Vietnam, protested against inequality and railed against "the establishment" brought us many good things. In 2008, the United States is poised to elect a black man President and yet when the sixties began, most black people could not vote, eat at a restaurant or stay at a hotel and were forced to meekly give up their position to any white person. The sixties gave us that change. When the sixties began, you could count the number of women in the American congress on one hand, in 2008 a woman came within a few thousand votes of being nominated by a major party for President. The sixties gave us that change. When the sixties began, most graduate programs at major universities did not allow women to enroll, now gender is an irrelevancy. The sixties gave us that change. When the sixties began, a woman could not be raped by her husband, could be beaten by her husband for disobeying and sexuality was repressed. Now, women have equal rights in marriage, cannot be mistreated in a relationship and have sexual freedom. The sixties gave us that change. This book is a collection of quotes from that dynamic decade of change, some of which admittedly was not for the better. Nevertheless, when viewed in the totality, the sixties was a great decade, and in this book you will read quotes from some of the people who made the great and positive changes that took place.

Love those Sixties quotes!

This is a great book of quotes from the 1960s, with statements from all sorts of people - musicians, politicians, writers, hippies, and many others. Most of them are very pertinent, though a few left me scratching my head. The book is divided into the topics Politics and Presidents, War and Peace, Culture, Counterculture, and finally, Protest and Social Struggle. Yet there really aren't all that many quotes for a nearly 250-page book. There are one to three quotes on each page, most of them quite short, so most pages have a lot of extra space. Added to each page are graphics suggestive of the Sixties, stuff like flowers and peace signs. Also, at the end are helpful lists of representative movies, books, and music from or about the Sixties. THE QUOTABLE SIXTIES by Rob Kirkpatrick is a great way to get a good sample of notable things said in that fascinating decade.