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The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972

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"The Sixties," the last of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published journals, is a personal history that is also brilliant social comedy and an anatomy of the times. Edited by Wilson's biographer, this volume records the final years of one of our foremost critics and writers, taking its place alongside his major works as an enduring contribution to American culture....Witnessing his own foibles and the ironies of human nature, expressing feeling more deeply than he often had in his journal, he writes his account of this decade with a concentration undiluted by other large-scale projects. The extraordinary personal record begun in another pivotal period in American life, with "The Twenties," comes to a fitting culmination in "The Sixties."

Pages: 968

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Noonday Press

Release: September 01, 1994

ISBN: 0374524149

ISBN 13: 9780374524142

The Sixties: The Last Journal, 1960-1972

4.2/5 ( ratings)

"The Sixties," the last of Edmund Wilson's posthumously published journals, is a personal history that is also brilliant social comedy and an anatomy of the times. Edited by Wilson's biographer, this volume records the final years of one of our foremost critics and writers, taking its place alongside his major works as an enduring contribution to American culture....Witnessing his own foibles and the ironies of human nature, expressing feeling more deeply than he often had in his journal, he writes his account of this decade with a concentration undiluted by other large-scale projects. The extraordinary personal record begun in another pivotal period in American life, with "The Twenties," comes to a fitting culmination in "The Sixties."

Pages: 968

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Noonday Press

Release: September 01, 1994

ISBN: 0374524149

ISBN 13: 9780374524142

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