Time It Was

What was it like to live through the Sixties?  The writers of these 27 memoirs offer the essence of life and youth in the period. In first-person narratives that range from poignant reminiscences to dramatic adventures the writers convey what it felt like to land a helicopter in the middle of a firefight in Vietnam to be beaten and jailed for trying to integrate restaurants in the American South to run for cover when soldiers opened fire on a campus peace rally in Ohio.  Other stories describe the writers' experiences organizing farm workers with Cesar Chavez campaigning to elect Barry Goldwater striking for Free Speech at Berkeley living in a commune joining the women's liberation movement becoming caught up in a religious cult or camping in the rain at Woodstock.