Volume 24, Number 13 · August 4, 1977
What Happened in the Sixties?
By Mark Crispin Miller
Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties
by Morris Dickstein
Basic Books, 300 pp., $11.95
The wild and bloody Sixties are at peace, for Morris Dickstein has revised them. Gates of Eden subdues that decade's fierce character, purporting to discuss 'American culture in the Sixties' by concentrating on its literature: Dickstein, professor of English at Queens College, 'can't see any evidence for the notion popularized by McLuhan that books have been displaced,' and has written convincingly to prove it.
Review, 6028 words
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