Smiling through the apocalypse: Esquire's history of the sixties

Part I: The Rise and Fall of Charisma

Superman comes to the Supermarket

Kennedy Without Tears

Robert's Character

The Holy Family

The Last Kennedy

Chicago, The Year of Our Lord, 1968

Part II: The Grass Roots of "Now"

Come Alive, America

Las Vegas (What?). Las Vegas (Can't Hear You! Too Noisy). Las Vegas!!

Twirling at Ole Miss

The Naked Luncheon

Part III: Egos, Superegos and Ids

Literary Notes on Khrushchev

Frank Sinatra has a Cold

Bogie in Excelsis

The Loser

Part IV: Some Failures in Communications

The American Establishment

How I Signed Up at 250 a Month for the Big Parade Through Havana Bla-Bla-Bla and Wound up in Guatemala with the CIA

The Dark Side of L.B.J.

An Appreciation of the Nonmilitary Functions of War

My Generation

There Goes (Varoom! Varoom!) That Kady-Kolored (Thphhhhhh!) Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (Rahaghhh!) Around the Bend (Brummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Turning on the World

The Life and Death of a Hippie

My Generation

Fifth Avenue, Uptown

The Segs

The Brilliancy of Black

An Introduction to Soul

Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case

Part V: Living up to our Commitment in Vietnam

Hell Sucks

An American Atrocity

Part VI: Creative Agonies

Some Children of the Goddess

Back on the Open Road for Boys

The Night Senator and Mrs. Javits, Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Merce Cunningham, the Stewed Prunes, Life, Newsweek, Harper's Bazaar and Show magazines, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Cream of New York's Upper Bohemia all saw, at last, what was Happening

On Experiencing Gore Vidal

A Distasteful Encounter with William F. Buckley Jr.