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A section in the front summarizes the pop-cultural tsunami that began even earlier, when boomers were in elementary school - Dr. Spock, Elvis Presley, the Beats, James Dean, J.D. Salinger, Jackson Pollock. Like any slice of history, much of it seems quaint 40 years later. Consider Time magazine's description of rock 'n' roll in 1956: "An unrelenting, socking syncopation that sounds like a bull whip; a choleric saxophone honking mating call sounds; an electric guitar turned up so loud that its sound shatters and splits..."
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America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the '60s
America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the '60s by Laban Carrick Hill. Little, Brown and Co., 1...
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