Coming Apart - by William L O'Neill (Paperback)

About the Book

This masterly chronicle of the 1960s, the twentieth century's most confounding decade, is an immensely readable book that combines wit with learning and seriousness with entertainment.

Book Synopsis

This masterly chronicle of the 1960s, the twentieth century's most confounding decade, is an immensely readable book that combines wit with learning and seriousness with entertainment.

Review Quotes

Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s is both readable and involving.

A first-rate book that will last for a long time.

A witty and incisive chronicle of the Pirandello sixties. . . . Seldom have reality and fantasy been so intertwined.

Both readable and involving, presenting the political and cultural focus with a twist of wit and sympathetic insight rare to an interpretation of the times.

For those who like their history readable and authentic, this is their book. It does magnificently for the 1960s what Frederick Lewis Allen did for the 1920s.

Marvelous, funny, and wise.

O'Neill's 1971 study blows away some of the smoke-screen surrounding that turbulent era.

One of those rare books that starts out good and improves as it goes along. O'Neill has captured it all at just the right moment with just the right wit and intellect.

About the Author

William L. O'Neill is professor of history at Rutgers University and author of A Democracy at War, Everyone Was Brave, American High, and other books in American history. He lives in Highland Park, New Jersey.