| Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle Contributor(s): Crowley, Walt (Author) |
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ISBN: 0295974931 ISBN-13: 9780295974934 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 Annotation: Anti-war marches, human be-ins, rock festivals, psychedelic drugs, underground newpapers, free universities, light shows, inner-city riots, radical skirmishes, and hippie antics are chronicled by a member and in-house critic of the New Left and counter culture. "Crowley provides a vivid portrait of one community during the social upheavals of the sixties. It is stimulating, informative, and entertaining". -- Western Historical Quarterly "Before Crowley became known for his writing at Seattle Weekly and as a TV political commentator, he created cartoons and batted out social diatribes for The Helix, Seattle's leading underground newspaper of the 1960s. In Rites, he recalls those times and discusses how the anti-war movement, drugs, and rock music all affected Seattle's growth". -- Seattle Magazine "Crowley extends the published history of that fabled decade beyond the well-known names and events of Selma and Berkeley to such people as Jack Delay, the former Air Force cadet who lived on a barge and turned a storefront into a homeless shelter, and to such events as Sky River Rock Festival and Lighter than Air Fair, which preceded Woodstock by a year". -- Choice " Crowley was at the center of much of the politial and social activity during a very active period and is smart enough no to trust only his own memory. He research, he interviewed and he somehow found the ability to put events he was intimately involved in into perspective". -- Portland Oregonian |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest (or, Wa) - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 979.777 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6" W x 8.89" (1.23 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Washington - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On a hot summer night in 1963, a teenager named Walt Crowley hopped off a bus in Seattle's University District, and began his own personal journey through the 1960s. Four years later at age 19, he was installed as "rapidograph in residence" at the Helix, the region's leading underground newspaper. His cartoons, cover art, and political essays helped define his generation's experience during that tumultuous decade. Rites of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixties in Seattle weaves Crowley's personal experience with the strands of international, intellectual, and political history that shaped the decade. As both a member and in-house critic of the New Left and counter-culture, the author offers a unique perspective in explaining why the experiments and excess of the period "made sense at the time." Anti-war marches, human be-ins, rock festivals, psychedelic drugs, underground newspapers, free universities, light shows, inner-city riots, radical skirmishes, and hippie antics are chronicled with personal anecdotes, contemporary accounts, and historical insights. In the pages of Rites of Passage, the reader will encounter Black (and White) Panthers, the Seattle and Chicago Seven, Weathermen and Radical Women, and many more remarkable characters. As an engaging blend of history and personal reminiscence, Rites of Passage places the sixties in a context unavailable to its participants at the time. In addition to his text, Crowley has assembled a chronology of the decade beginning with its harbingers in the forties and fifties and continuing through its aftermath. This compilation covers political, social, and cultural events, and provides the most complete synopsis of sixties history now in print. |