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Smiling Through the Apocalypse
Esquire's History of the Sixties
Hayes, Harold (ed.) Publisher: The McCall Publishing Co, New York, USA
Year Published: 1969 First Published: 1960
Pages: 981pp
Resource Type: Book
Ten years' of journalism from Esquire magazine.
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Table of Contents
Part I: The Rise and Fall of Charisma
1. Superman Comes to the Supermarket
2. Kennedy Without Tears
3. Lee Oswald's Letters to his Mother
4. "You All Know Me! I'm Jack Ruby!"
5. Robert's Character
6. The Holy Family
7. The Last Kennedy
8. The Logistics of the Funeral
9. Chicago, the Year of our Lord, 1968
10. The Members of the Assembly
11. The Coming of the Purple Better One
12. In a Pig's Eye
Part II: The Grass Roots of "Now"
13. Come Alive, America
14. Las Vegas (What?), Las Vegas (Can't Hear You! Too Noisy)
15. Twirling at Ole Miss
16. The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson. Yes!
17. The Naked Luncheon
Part III: Egos, Superegos and Ids
18. Literary Notes on Khrushchev
19. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
20. Ava: Life in the Afternoon
21. The Totemization of Sir Winston Churchill
22. Bogie in Excelsis
23. Mr Fisher is Open
24. Mr Kenneth, They Love You
25. The Loser
26. Requiem for a Lightweight
Part IV: The New Sentimentality
27. The New Sentimentality
Part V: Some Failures in Communication
(a) The Credibility Gap
28. The New Sentimentality
29. How I Signed up at $250 a Month for the Big Parade Through Havana
30. The Duties and Responsibilities of a Congressman
31. Sixty Versions of the Kennedy Assassination
32. The Dark Side of L.B.J.
33. An Appreciation of the Nonmilitary Function of War
(b) The Generation Gap
34. My Generation
35. Mrs Aadland's Little Girl, Beverly
36. Doom and Passion Along RT. 45
37. There Goes (Varoom! )Varoom!) That Kandy-Kolored …..
38. Three Letters Home From Mississippi
39. Turning on the World
40. The Life and Death of a Hippie
41. The Collapse of SDS
42. My Generation
(c) The Colour Gap
43. Fifth Avenue, Uptown
44. The Segs
45. The Brilliancy of Black
46. From "The Second Civil War"
47. An Introduction to Soul
48. Q: How can we get the black people to cool it?
49. Martin Luther King is Still on the Case
Part VI: Living Up to Our Commitment in Vietnam
50. When Demirgian Comes Marching Home Again
51. Hell Sucks
52. An American Atrocity
Part VII: Creative Agonies
53. Some Children of the Goddess
54. The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy
55. Looking for Hemingway
56. Back on the Open Road for Boys
57. The Night Senator and Mrs Javits, etc ….
58. Grace Through Gambling
59. On Experiencing Gore Vidal
60. A Distasteful Encounter with William F. Buckley Jr
Addends to the Sixties
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