Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost

Title: Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility, and Innocence Lost
Author: Frye Gaillard
American History: 1697319
ISBN: 9781588383440
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 2018
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 704
Section: History | United States | 20th Century
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Publisher Description:

"There are many different ways to remember the sixties," Frye Gaillard writes, "and this is mine. There was in these years the sense of a steady unfolding of time, as if history were on a forced march, and the changes spread to every corner of our lives. As future generations debate the meaning of the decade, I hope to offer a sense of how it felt to have lived it. A Hard Rain is one writer's reconstruction and remembrance of a transcendent era--one that, for better or worse, lives with us still."

With A Hard Rain Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times: civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the war in Vietnam, and the protests movements against it.

Gaillard also examines the cultural manifestations of change in the era--music, literature, art, religion, and science--and so we meet not only the Brothers Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X, but also Gloria Steinem, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Harper Lee, Mister Rogers, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Andy Warhol, Billy Graham, Thomas Merton, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Angela Davis, Barry Goldwater, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Berrigan Brothers. As Gaillard remembers these influential people, he weaves together a compelling story about an iconic American decade of change, conflict, and progress.