Jonathan Leaf
Teoksen The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties tekijä
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Jonathan Leaf is a playwright and cultural critic. The author of The Germans in Paris, The Caterers, and other plays, he has written about the arts and culture for National Review, the Weekly Standard, the New Criterion, and other publications. He now lives in New York City, where he previously näytä lisää worked as a public school teacher. näytä vähemmän
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The true story of what really happened in the 1960's.
Lots of factual and date errors. Also lots of points of view that, while opinions, are decidedly bizarre, such as stating that Bob Dylan lacks any talent. On the one hand he lauds John Lennon for criticizing a part of the Students for a Democratic Society for praising Mao, on the other hand he calls Lennon "snarly."
The book makes some valid points about other 60's characters, but over-makes its case.
The book makes some valid points about other 60's characters, but over-makes its case.
Lots of factual and date errors. Also lots of points of view that, while opinions, are decidedly bizarre, such as stating that Bob Dylan lacks any talent. On the one hand he lauds John Lennon for criticizing a part of the Students for a Democratic Society for praising Mao, on the other hand he calls Lennon "snarly."
The book makes some valid points about other 60's characters, but over-makes its case.
The book makes some valid points about other 60's characters, but over-makes its case.
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- 2
- Jäseniä
- 52
- Suosituimmuussija
- #307,430
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.5
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 5
- ISBN:t
- 11
He also pretends that hippie culture never happened, on the grounds that people in the '60s dressed and lived in manners roughly comparable to those of the '50s. It would've been more honest to say that "the Sixties" happened in the '70s instead... (And, from what I know of the decade, I get the impression that its mental culture might've been more Seventies-ish than its physical culture was. But I'm not an expert; I certainly can't say for sure.)… (lisätietoja)