{"product_id":"fifty-years-ago-today-the-sixties-then-and-now-9780692859728","title":"Fifty Years Ago Today: The Sixties Then and Now","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhether we lived through it or not, the Sixties was the most formative and transformative decade of most of our lives: from the Kennedy years to Woodstock, the decade that keeps delighting us, angering us, teaching us, and haunting us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFifty Years Ago Today: The Sixties Then and Now\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating, entertaining, and provocative history tour of the music, movies, events, and issues of the period, and their relevant and revelatory connections to the present day...or how the time of Camelot and the Age of Aquarius can help us through the Term of Trump.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere are constant reminders today of how the Sixties affect current trends, ideas, and political and cultural landmarks. Black Lives Matter leaders reach back to the legacy of Martin Luther King, and African American musicians like D'Angelo and Kamasi Washington draw on the music of Sly Stone and John Coltrane. '60s figures and events are constantly memorialized and celebrated in movies (\u003ci\u003eGet On Up, All the Way, Selma\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003ci\u003eSgt. Pepper's\u003c\/i\u003e suggests \u003ci\u003eOK Computer\u003c\/i\u003e. Stanley Kubrick's movies are a huge influence on \u003ci\u003eFury Road\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWestworld\u003c\/i\u003e. \"Strike \" becomes \"Resist \" The Women's March is compared to the Vietnam Moratorium. And the glory of the moon shot reminds us how desperately we need a program for the climate crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA nonfiction companion to Stein's \u003ci\u003eCats' Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel set in New York in the Sixties, \u003ci\u003eFifty Years Ago Today: The Sixties Then and Now\u003c\/i\u003e combines portraits of the era's leading artists and thinkers, cultural commentary, and vivid on-the-scenes memories of pivotal events with insights on how the legacy of the era can lead to future cultural and political awakenings. \u003ci\u003eFifty Years Ago Today\u003c\/i\u003e is alive with the passions, the still burning controversies, and the lessons of the Sixties at a time when they've never been more vital to America and to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Eric Stein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Streetlight Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692859728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Michael Eric Stein has been a novelist, playwright, television writer (\u003ci\u003eMiami Vice\u003c\/i\u003e, the CBS television movie \u003ci\u003eHigher Ground\u003c\/i\u003e), screenwriter, video producer, and a journalist writing on film, rock, jazz, and Hawaiian music and culture for \u003ci\u003eFilms In Review\u003c\/i\u003e in New York, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMaui No Ka Oi\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, where he wrote about politics, business, travel, cultural affairs, the arts, and music, and won two statewide Hawaii Publishers Association Pa'i awards for the magazine. He is a graduate of Yale University and the New York University Graduate School of Film and Television, and currently lives in New York City\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Streetlight Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40100593172595,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_00efc166-ced6-4ff4-ad11-94f436abe717.jpg?v=1653143329","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/fifty-years-ago-today-the-sixties-then-and-now-9780692859728","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}