![]() ![]() While enjoyed by most of us in the 60s, it comes from the 50s. The Cat in the Hat, by Theodore Geisel (Dr. He considered it his greatest writing saying it is “the best I can write for all my life.” The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemmingway. A series of essays by Baldwin, originally published in periodicals, covering a variety of subjects from rents in Harlem, to an analysis of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, jazz and Blacks in France. Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin. “It changed my life as it changed everyone else’s,” noted Bob Dylan The “beat generation,” whose alienation, dis-connectedness and frustration seemed like ancient history from the perspective of the 70s, but it was only just a little while earlier. The story and the message seem particularly prescient and relevant today. How does a government control the minds of the people? Simple. Continuing the warnings of other dystopias from the 40s. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me…”įahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids – and I might even be said to possess a mind. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. This line few lines are enough to recommend it: "I am an invisible man. A classic adolescence in all its confusion, self-absorption and alienation although I think Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters may be even better. ![]() The literature of the Fifties includes novels that spoke to the McCarthy era, provided perspective on the post-World War II era, dealt with the emerging sexual equality and racial justice movements, and a zeitgeist of coming to grips with the atomic age, the seemingly limitless potential of Pax Americana, the early days of Cold War paranoia and the fear of nuclear annihilation.Ĭatcher in the Rye, by J.D. My choices include both my favorite books and cultural bell weathers. This week, it’s the Fifties (spoiler alert: next Tuesday will be the Sixties!). Last week, I covered my choices of the “best books” from the Forties. ![]()
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