Author: Lipton, Lawrence

Price: $13.95

Category:Books
Publication Date:2010-03-10T00:00:01Z
Pages:328
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:1578987520
ISBN:13:9781578987528
Reprint of the 1959 edition. Mr. Lipton's book is the first complete and unbiased survey of the beat generation and its role in our society. Here are the intimate facts about these people and their attitudes-toward sex, dope, jazz, art, religion, parents, landlords, employers, politicians, draft boards, the law and, most important, toward the "square." The author presents a picture of their way of life, their individual backgrounds, the language they have appropriated, in terms made clear for the first time to those of us who have been confused and puzzled about them. He also provides a balanced discussion of their literature, art and music, of what they produce and fail to produce in the arts they practice.