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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction · David Remnick
Part One · Reckonings
A Note by George Packer
Silent Spring · Rachel Carson
Letter from a Region in My Mind · James Baldwin
Eichmann in Jerusalem · Hannah Arendt
In Cold Blood: The Corner · Truman Capote
The Village of Ben Suc · Jonathan Schell
Reflections: Half Out of Our Tree · Richard H. Rovere
Part Two · Confrontation
A Note by Kelefa Sanneh
Civil Rights
It Doesn’t Seem Quick to Me (Desegregating Durham) · Katherine T. Kinkead
An Education in Georgia (Integrating a Public University) · Calvin Trillin
March on Washington · Calvin Trillin
Youth in Revolt
Letter from Berkeley (The Free Speech Movement) · Calvin Trillin
The Price of Peace Is Confusion · Renata Adler
The Put-On · Jacob Brackman
Letter from Chicago · Richard H. Rovere
Harvard Yard · E. J. Kahn, Jr.
Part Three · American Scenes
A Note by Jill Lepore
Pressure and Possibility
Letter from Washington (The Cuba Crisis) · Richard H. Rovere
An Inquiry into Enoughness (Visiting a Missile Silo) · Daniel Lang
Letter from Washington (The Great Society) · Richard H. Rovere
Lull (Walking Through Harlem) · Charlayne Hunter
Demonstration (A Biafra Rally) · Jonathan Schell
Hearing (Feminists on Abortion) · Ellen Willis
Notes and Comment (Woodstock) · James Stevenson and Faith McNulty
Shots Were Fired
Notes and Comment (The Assassination of John F. Kennedy) · Donald Malcolm, Lillian Ross, and E. B. White
Views of a Death (J.F.K.'s Televised Funeral) · Jonathan Miller
Notes and Comment (The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.) · Jacob Brackman and Terrence Malick
Life and Death in the Global Village · Michael J. Arlen
Letter from Washington (The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy) · Richard H. Rovere
Part Four · Farther Shores
A Note by Evan Osnos
Though Tribe and Tongue May Differ (Nigerian Independence) · Emily Hahn
Letter from Havana · Hans Koningsberger
Letter from Vatican City · Xavier Rynne
On the Seventh Day They Stopped (Six Day War) · Flora Lewis
Letter from Prague · Joseph Wechsberg
The Events in May: A Paris Notebook · Mavis Gallant
Part Five · New Arrivals
A Note by Malcolm Gladwell
Never Before Seen
Portable Robot · F. S. Norman, Brendan Gill, and Thomas Meehan
Telstar · Lillian Ross and Thomas Whiteside
The Big Bang · John Updike
Touch-Tone · George W. S. Trow
Sgt. Pepper · Lillian Ross
Apollo 11 · Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.
Brief Encounters
Ornette Coleman · Donald Steward and Whitney Balliett
Cassius Clay · A. J. Liebling
Glenn Gould · Lillian Ross
Brian Epstein · D. Lowe and Thomas Whiteside
Roy Wilkins · Andy Logan
Marshall Mcluhan · Lillian Ross and Jane Kramer
Joan Baez · Kevin Wallace
Twiggy · Thomas Whiteside
Ronald Reagan · James Stevenson
Tom Stoppard · Geoffrey T. Hellman
Simon & Garfunkel · James Stevenson
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi · Ved Mehta
The Who · Hendrik Hertzberg
Part Six · Artists & Athletes
A Note by Larissa MacFarquhar
A Tilted Insight (Mike Nichols & Elaine May) · Robert Rice
The Crackin’, Shakin’, Breakin’ Sounds (Bob Dylan) · Nat Henthoff
Paterfamilias (Allen Ginsberg) · Jane Kramer
Levels of the Game (Arthur Ashe, Clark Graebner) · John McPhee
Days and Nights with the Unbored (World Series 1969) · Roger Angell
Part Seven · Critics
A Note by Adam Gopnik
The Current Cinema
All Homage (Breathless) · Roger Angell
After Man (2001: A Space Odyssey) · Penelope Gilliatt
The Bottom of the Pit (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) · Pauline Kael
Art & Architecture
False Front or Cold-War Concept · Lewis Mumford
The Nineteen-Sixties: Time in the Museum · Harold Rosenberg
Television
Television’s War · Michael J. Arlen
The Bombs Below Go Pop-Pop-Pop · Michael J. Arlen
The Theatre
Sweet Birdie of Youth (Bye Bye Birdie) · Kenneth Tynan
The Theatre Abroad: London · Kenneth Tynan
Off Broadway (Oh! Calcutta!) · Brendan Gill
Music
Newport Notes · Whitney Balliett
Rock, Etc. (Packaging Rock and Post-rock) · Ellen Willis
Rock, Etc. (Woodstock) · Ellen Willis
Whither? · Winthrop Sargeant
Books
Our Invisible Poor (Michael Harrington's The Other America) · Dwight MacDonald
Polemic and the New Reviewers · Renata Adler
The Author as Librarian (J. L. Borges) · John Updike
The Fire Last Time (William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner) · George Steiner
The Unfinished Man (Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint) · Brendan Gill
The Whole Truth (Joyce Carol Oates's them) · L. E. Sissman
Part Eight · Poetry
A Note by Dana Goodyear
The Heaven of Animals · James Dickey
Tulips · Sylvia Plath
Next Day · Randall Jarrell
The Broken Home · James Merrill
The Asians Dying · W. S. Merwin
At the Airport · Howard Nemerov
Second Glance at a Jaguar · Ted Hughes
Endless · Muriel Rukeyser
Moon Song · Anne Sexton
Feel Me · May Swenson
Part Nine · Fiction
A Note by Jennifer Egan
The Ormolu Clock · Muriel Spark
A & P · John Updike
The Hunter’s Waking Thoughts · Mavis Gallant
The Swimmer · John Cheever
The Indian Uprising · Donald Barthelme
The Key · Isaac Bashevis Singer
Acknowledgments
Contributors
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