Random HouseProduct DescriptionThe third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth centuryincluding work by James Baldwin Pauline Kael Sylvia Plath Roger Angell Muriel Spark and John Updikealongside new assessments of the 1960s by some of todays finest writers.
Here are real-time accounts of these years of turmoil: Calvin Trillin reports on the integration of Southern universities E. B. White and John Updike wrestle with the enormity of the Kennedy assassination and Jonathan Schell travels with American troops into the jungles of Vietnam. The murder of Martin Luther King Jr. the fallout of the 1968 Democratic Convention the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia the Six-Day War: All are brought to immediate and profound life in these pages.
The New Yorker of the 1960s was also the wellspring of some of the truly timeless works of American journalism. Truman Capotes In Cold Blood Rachel Carsons Silent Spring Hannah Arendts Eichmann in Jerusalem?? and James Baldwin??s The Fire Next Time all first appeared in The New Yorker and are featured here. The magazine also published such indelible short story masterpieces as John Cheever??s ??The Swimmer?? and John Updike??s ??A & P???? alongside poems by Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.
The arts underwent an extraordinary transformation during the decade?? one mirrored by the emergence in The New Yorker of critical voices as arresting as Pauline Kael and Kenneth Tynan. Among the crucial cultural figures profiled here are Simon