Gates of Eden
American Culture in the Sixties
Morris Dickstein
"A vivacious, highly original work, combining literary criticism, political commentary...and candid personal testimony."
--Walter Clemons, Newsweek
"With excellent literary judgment and judicious sympathy [Dickstein] covers politics and culture...the `new journalism,' fiction, rock music, black writing and black nationalism, and concludes with an autobiographical sketch that nicely reveals the relationship of the observer to the things observed."
--Christopher Lasch, New York Times Book Review
"A vital and important book for anyone who wants to know the intricate and sometimes explosive connections between culture and politics in the sixties."
--Richard Poirier,
Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.