[Item #5350] Daydream Sunset: The 60s Counterculture in the 70s. Ron Jacobs.
Daydream Sunset: The 60s Counterculture in the 70s
Daydream Sunset: The 60s Counterculture in the 70s

Daydream Sunset: The 60s Counterculture in the 70s

Petrolia, CA: Counterpunch Books, 2015. First Edition. Softcover. “The Sixties remade Western culture. The Beats, rock ‘n’ roll, and the bebop subcultures of the 1950s exploded into the psychedelic mishmash of politics, youth, sound, art, and movement that became known as the counterculture….Then things fell apart. Nixon. Cambodia, Kent State and Jackson State. Between the actions of government and the cooptation of the culture, the counterculture stumbled, then fell. The decade of the 1970s was a time of retreat by the forces represented by the counterculture. In ‘Daydream Sunset,’ author Ron Jacobs takes a look at that decade of aftermath and discusses what happened in the years immediately after the counterculture’s crest” (Back Cover). So reads a sizable chunk of the back cover blurb for Ron Jacobs’ “Daydream Sunset,” worth quoting in its near entirety here for the helpful way in which it primes potential readers and introduces the work’s premise and thesis, both. A dyed-in-the-wool radical, Jacobs published “The Way The Wind Blew: a History of the Weather Underground” in 1997, a 226-page history of the decidedly Maoist domestic-&-political terrorist organization. Jacobs thus represents or embodies that quadrant (or eighth, perhaps) in explicit cultural communication with what’s known as the “New Left” — the latter-day disciples of Critical Theorists like Adorno, Horkheimer & Marcuse as well as Postmodernists like Foucault. Ron Jacobs would happily have been one of those students in May ’68 angrily prowling the streets of Paris, — yelling “Mao! Marx! Marcuse!” all the while. His story is a testament to that; equal parts press conference, and personal testament. [ISBN: 978-0692389614]. First Trade Softcover Edition, though not explicated as such on copyright page. In strong fine condition with only minor-to-moderate shelf-wear, light bumping to fine-edges & corners of front, back cover & generally minute rubbing at varying locales at/along same. Fine. [Item #5350]

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