Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1977.
Introduction: The view from the end of the century
Preface to the original edition
I. Breaking out : new shoots from old roots
Prologue: Allen Ginsberg and the sixties
Cold War blues : politics and culture in the fifties
The rise of a new sensibility, or, How the fifties broke up
II. Breaking through : the hidden history of the sixties
Black humor and history : the early sixties
The working press, the literary culture, and the new journalism
Black writing and Black nationalism : four generations
The age of rock revisited
III. Breaking down, or, How it all came out
Fiction at the crossroads : dilemmas of experimental writer
Epilogue: Remembering the sixties, surviving the seventies.
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Gates of Eden : American culture in the sixties by Morris Dickstein. ISBN 9780871404329. Published by Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
