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Smiling through the apocalypse: Esquire's history of the sixties
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McCall Pub. Co
Publication Date
[1969]
Language
English
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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.
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841500029
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