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This volume of photographs selected from the archives of Life magazine chronicles the political and cultural milestones of the sixties. It contains over 350 images of people, places and events which shaped the decade.

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Library Journal Review

This volume continues a series of decade-by-decade selections of photographs from the archives of Life . No matter how close to the 1960s or how distant one feels, the decade has already become the domain of historians. Particularly in its condensation of events, this selection of 250 captioned photographs is rather haunting. The images are divided into several categories--Civil Rights, The Kennedy Years, Music, Protest, Fads and Fashions, Space, 1968, and Vietnam--with each category introduced by an essay. Readers will recognize a number of the more familiar photographs, such as those of Woodstock, the Kennedy assassination, and the moon landing, which have become cultural icons representing the 1960s. A good summary of the decade for those too young to remember from a magazine that was at the time an integral part of American life.-- Ann Copeland, formerly with Drew Univ. Lib., Madison, N.J. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Life editor Doris C. O'Neil has rounded up all the usual photographic suspects in compiling this visual chronicle of the 1960s. For what must be the umpteenth time for many readers, we see the loutish murderers of three civil rights activists during their arraignment, a distraught young woman wailing over the body of a slain student at Kent State, Ruby shooting Oswald, the multitudes at Woodstock, etc. This exercise in history and nostalgia is not without its pleasures; readers who are old enough to remember the 1960s will surely receive an emotional jolt of some sort from at least one, and possibly several, of the photographs herein. The text, however, leaves much to be desired. It's full of cliched thinking (and writing), received wisdom, and a liberal political and cultural sensibility that takes for granted much that could and should be subjected to a more critical scrutiny. Index of photographers. --Steve Weingartner