{"product_id":"the-new-yorker-book-of-the-60s","title":"The New Yorker Book of the 60s","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe next instalment in the acclaimed New Yorker 'decades' series featuring an all-star line-up of historical pieces from the 1960s alongside new pieces by current New Yorker staffers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1960s, the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century, were a time of tectonic shifts in all aspects of society – from the March on Washington and the Second Vatican Council to the Summer of Love and Woodstock. No magazine chronicled the immense changes of the period better than The New Yorker. This capacious volume includes historic pieces from the magazine’s pages that brilliantly capture the sixties, set alongside new assessments by some of today’s finest writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of the 1960s was also the wellspring of some of the truly timeless works of American journalism. Truman Capote’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIn Cold Blood, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRachel Carson’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSilent Spring,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Hannah Arendt’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and James Baldwin’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Fire Next Time \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eall first appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and are featured here. The magazine also published such indelible short story masterpieces as John Cheever’s ‘The Swimmer’ and John Updike’s ‘A and P’, alongside poems by Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe arts underwent an extraordinary transformation during the decade, one mirrored by the emergence in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of critical voices as arresting as Pauline Kael and Kenneth Tynan. Among the crucial cultural figures profiled here are Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Stoppard, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Cassius Clay (before he was Muhammad Ali) and Mike Nichols and Elaine May.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWith contributions from:\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eTruman Capote, John Updike, E.B. White, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Jonathan Schell, Dwight Macdonald, Renata Adler, Hannah Arendt, Pauline Kael, AJ Liebling, Nat Hentoff, Calvin Trillin, Xavuer Rynne, John McPhee, Anthony Hiss and more.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kunzum Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45168879075519,"sku":null,"price":3499.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0552\/2423\/8271\/files\/TheNewYorkerBookofthe60s.jpg?v=1771050129","url":"https:\/\/kunzum.shop\/products\/the-new-yorker-book-of-the-60s","provider":"Kunzum Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}