Review: The Sixties Unplugged by Gerard DeGroot | Crisis? What Crisis? by Alwyn W Turner
                   
guardian.co.uk     05-Jul-2008          

Politics, philosophy and society Children of the revolution Francis Beckett rues the lost opportunities of the 60s and 70s Saturday July 5, 2008 The Guardian The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade by Gerard DeGroot 500pp, Macmillan, £20 Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s by Alwyn W Turner The 60s really began in 1956 with John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, but few people noticed until the Beatles released "Love Me Do" in October 1962. The short 60s - from the release of "Love Me Do" to the student sit-ins and the Paris événements of summer 1968 - was a wonderful time to be young. For the first time, people took the young seriously, there was money and the freedom to enjoy it, and no one bothered to stop and think with what misery these luxuries had been bought by earlier generations. The... [read full story]                    


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