A Theory

Everybody has a right to love and marry, it's okay to be Muslim, black can be beautiful, dinosaur bones were not put here to fool us, and the Earth still revolves around the Sun.

About The Library

The content of the Sixties is dissolving in the haze of media and fashion. It was a valuable period grown from the fertile groundwork of the agitated decades that proceeded it. There are sixty books to read here. They are, mostly, long out‑of‑print. The books cover the social and political topics of the 1960's and their antecedents. You'll find a link in each book's description which opens a digital copy (to read here or print) in a new browser window.

 Only a combination of certain critical conditions have kept the man and his government from suffering the same fate as Mussolini or Ceaucesceu. A politically naive public, a neutered opposition, a compliant press, a Constitutionally-fixed term of office, a truckload of fear, a moderately sufficient economy and a remotely plausible victory in an unpopular war have all conspired to encourage a surly public to simply wait out the clock for the demise of the Creature from Crawford.

Rose Colored GlassesInto the streets! Let us join together with all those souls in Babylon who are straining for the birth of a new day. A revolutionary generation is on the scene. There are men and women, human beings, in Babylon today. Disenchanted, alienated white youth, the hippies, the yippies and all the unnamed dropouts from the white man's burden, are our allies in this cause. Acid blew all sense of proportion, all sense of a frame, to smithereens. I mean it just blew the frame right out of the picture .... It gave you a sense of infinite possibility. You could do anything if you just did it—totally! You could walk right into the sky. All your big decisions were made on LSD. And while that might be an exciting way to operate, it's not the most intelligent way. To think that your personal consciousness can overcome historical forces is a mistake.

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