Ann Charters Books
Blues faces
By Ann Charters, Samuel Barclay Charters
"For more than fifty years the blues and the singers who sang them were nearly forgotten. Not until Samuel Charters published his seminal The Country Blues in 1959 did a new wave of interest in thi...
Read MoreThe Portable Beat Reader
By Ann Charters
Beginning in the late 1940's, American literature discovered a four-letter word, and the word was "beat." Beat as in poverty and beatitude, ecstasy and exile. Beat was Jack Kerouac touring the Amer...
Read MoreThe Portable Sixties Reader
By Ann Charters
From civil rights to free love, JFK to LSD, Woodstock to the Moonwalk, the Sixties was a time of change, political unrest, and radical experiments in the arts, sexuality, and personal identity. In...
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