The Sixties Unplugged

A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade

Gerard J. DeGroot

    • Introduction

    Preludes

    • Torgau: A Brief Moment of Sanity
    • At Home: The Generation Gap

    Premonitions

    • On the Airwaves: Transistor Radios
    • San Francisco: A Collection of Angels
    • Howling at the World
    • Worcester: The Pill
    • The Congo: Democracy Murdered
    • The Old Bailey: Lady Chatterley on trial
    • Washington: New Frontiers

    Hard Rain

    • Sharpeville: Apartheid Is a Way of Death
    • Bay of Pigs: It Seemed Like a Good Idea
    • Berlin: The Wall
    • Ap Bac: Bad News from a Place Called Vietnam
    • Novaya Zemlya and Cuba: Big Bombs

    All Gone to Look for America

    • Albany and Birmingham: Lessons of Nonviolence
    • Port Huron: Students for a Democratic Society
    • Washington: I Have a Dream
    • Arlington National Cemetery: Kennedy and Vietnam

    Call Out the Instigators

    • Duxbury: Rachel Carson
    • Harlem: Malcolm X
    • Havana: Che
    • Miami: The Greatest
    • Chelsea: Mary Quant

    Universal Soldiers

    • Tonkin Gulf: Carte Blanche
    • Sinai: The Six-Day War
    • Biafra: The Problem of Africa
    • Guangxi Province: Cannibals for Mao

    And in the Streets . . .

    • Margate: Mods versus Rockers
    • Watts: Long Hot Summer
    • Berkeley: Free Speech
    • Amsterdam: Provo Pioneers
    • Selma: Black Power

    Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll

    • Millbrook: Acid Dreams
    • In Bed: Sex and Love
    • Liverpool: The Beatles
    • Manchester: The Battle for Bob Dylan
    • Woodstock: A Festival Yes; A Nation No

    Everybody Get Together

    • Sharon: Young Americans for Freedom
    • London: Love Is All You Need
    • San Francisco: It’s Free Because It’s Yours!
    • Greenwich Village: Yippie!
    • Oakland: The Black Panthers
    • Delano: Boycott Grapes

    Turn, Turn, Turn

    • Saigon: Tet
    • Atlantic City: From Miss America to Ms. World
    • Greenwich Village: Stonewall
    • San Francisco: Summer of Rape

    Gone to Graveyards

    • Memphis: The Death of King
    • Prague: Short Spring
    • Los Angeles: The Death of Hope
    • Mexico City: Shooting Students

    You Say You Want a Revolution?

    • Berlin: Rudi the Red
    • New York: Up against the Wall, Motherfucker!
    • Paris: Absurdists Revolt
    • London: A Very British Revolution

    Wilted Flowers

    • Vatican: Humanae Vitae
    • Mayfair: Casualties of the Cultural Revolution
    • People’s Park: The Future in a Vacant Lot
    • San Diego: A Burning Desire to End the War

    Meet the New Boss

    • Jakarta: A Perfect Little Coup
    • Hollywood: Takin’ Care of Business
    • Los Angeles: A Goddamned Electable Person
    • St. Louis: Curt Flood versus Baseball

    No Direction Home

    • Altamont: The Day the Music Died
    • Chappaquiddick: A Career Drowned
    • The Moon: Magnificent Desolation
    • Greenwich Village: You Don’t Need a Weatherman
    • Old Bailey: Another Obscenity Trial
    • Epitaph: It’s Life’s Illusions I Recall
    • Notes
    • Bibliography
    • Index
  • Cover: The Sixties Unplugged
  • A photo of the author

Gerard J. DeGroot is Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His many books include The First World War and A Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War.