DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Nostalgia for the 1960s is a complete waste of time
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RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
The Bad Trip
By James Riley
Icon Books, £14.99
WRITING in 1997, music critic Ian MacDonald lamented the lack of a serious study of the culture and counterculture of the “disappearing decade” of the 1960s. The Bad Trip is an ambitious attempt to put that right by demythologising this period of upheaval and identifying its real legacy.
Joan Didion and others have characterised the sixties as an era in which utopian dreams were demolished in a spate of tragic violence: there was the civil rights movement, anti-war demonstrations and sexual liberation, but the last months of the decade bought the Manson Family murders and the violent pandemonium of the free rock festival at Altamont Speedway.
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