{"product_id":"the-sixties-unplugged-a-kaleidoscopic-history-of-a-disorderly-decade","title":"The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf you remember the Sixties  quipped Robin Williams  you werent there. That was  of course  an oblique reference to the mind-bending drugs that clouded perceptionyet time has proven an equally effective hallucinogen. This book revisits the Sixties we forgot or somehow failed to witness. In a kaleidoscopic global tour of the decade  Gerard DeGroot reminds us that the Ballad of the Green Beret outsold Give Peace a Chance  that the Students for a Democratic Society were outnumbered by Young Americans for Freedom  that revolution was always a pipe dream  and that the Sixties belong to Reagan and de Gaulle more than to Kennedy and Dubcek. The Sixties Unplugged shows how opportunity was squandered  and why nostalgia for the decade has obscured sordidness and futility. DeGroot returns us to a time in which idealism  tolerance  and creativity gave way to cynicism  chauvinism  and materialism. He presents the Sixties as a drama acted out on stages around the world  a theater of the absurd in which Chinas Cultural Revolution proved to be the worst atrocity of the twentieth century  the Six-Day War a disaster for every nation in the Middle East  and a million slaughtered Indonesians martyrs to greed. The Sixties Unplugged restores to an era the prevalent disorder and inconvenient truths that longing  wistfulness  and distance have obscured. In an impressionistic journey through a tumultuous decade  DeGroot offers an object lesson in the distortions nostalgia can create as it strives to impose order on memory and value on mayhem.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944924737589,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674027868","price":67.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674027862.jpg?v=1769861282","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-sixties-unplugged-a-kaleidoscopic-history-of-a-disorderly-decade","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}