Silent Spring Revolution

Book Description New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties, telling a highly charged story of an indomitable generation that quite literally saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the detonation of an atomic…

Kerouac: Road Novels 1957 – 1960

Book DescriptionBook Sleeve Content Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was a landmark event in American fiction when it was published in 1957, a counter-cultural credo that made Kerouac the reluctant figurehead of a generation that saw itself mirrored in his cast of restless seekers, “mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous…