The Politically Incorrect Guide to th..., Jonathan Leaf
The Politically Incorrect Guide to th..., Jonathan Leaf
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties

Author: Jonathan Leaf

Narrator: Rick Silversmith

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/11/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

In this blast from the past, critically acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in history: the 1960s.Did you know that the civilrights movement did little to improve the lives of average African Americans or that most Americans actively supported the Vietnam War and the draft? The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties proves the antiVietnam War sentiment and free love slogans that supposedly defined the decade were just a small part of the leftist counter culture. The mainstream culture was more politically incorrect, but youll never hear that from a liberal pundit or read it in a politically correct textbook.

About Jonathan Leaf

Jonathan Leaf  is a journalist and has written for many publications, including the New York Post, the New Yorker, and National Review. He is also a critically acclaimed playwright, garnering rave reviews in the Wall Street Journal for his plays The Caterers and The Germans in Paris. He lives in New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nathan

As one of a large collection of Politically Incorrect Guides [1] that I am in the process of reading and reviewing, I was struck by the way that this book is deeply relevant to looking at culture as a whole.  Regardless of what decade that one lives in, there is a large collection of culture that is......more

Goodreads review by John

4.3ish, but I’ll round up just to irritate the bomb-throwers. Highlights for me were the chapters on: Student Radicalism The Civil Rights movement The race to the moon LBJ’s War on poverty All of the above have been romanticized continually in the ensuing decades, but a lot of truth behind the facades c......more

Goodreads review by Zinger

This book zipped through this era briefly touching on many important tidbits that most Americans have never heard of. Being interested in this time period I have read many books on the subject so there was not very many things I learned. Leaf has a straight forward and blunt way of saying things, whi......more

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