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We Commonly Think Of The Psychedelic Sixties As An Explosion Of Creative Energy And Freedom That Arose In Direct Revolt Against The Social Restraint And Authoritarian Hierarchy Of The Early Cold War Years. Yet, As Fred Turner Reveals In The Democratic Surround, The Decades That Brought Us The Korean War And Communist Witch Hunts Also Witnessed An Extraordinary Turn Toward Explicitly Democratic, Open, And Inclusive Ideas Of Communication And With Them New, Flexible Models Of Social Order. Surprisingly, He Shows That It Was This Turn That Brought Us The Revolutionary Multimedia And Wild-eyed Individualism Of The 1960s Counterculture. In This Prequel To His Celebrated Book From Counterculture To Cyberculture, Turner Rewrites The History Of Postwar America, Showing How In The 1940s And {u2019}50s American Liberalism Offered A Far More Radical Social Vision Than We Now Remember.^ Turner Tracks The Influential Mid-century Entwining Of Bauhaus Aesthetics With American Social Science And Psychology. From The Museum Of Modern Art In New York To The New Bauhaus In Chicago And Black Mountain College In North Carolina, Turner Shows How Some Of The Most Well-known Artists And Intellectuals Of T

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Author

Fred Turner

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226325897

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Literary Criticism

Rating

4.4 / 5 (21 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14