Book Review "The Last Innocent Year"

The Last Innocent Year - Book Review
"There never was an innocent year...but there was a time when the delusion of innocence was easy to believe." (Margolis, Intro) The Draft, Vietnam, Flower Children, Riots, Women's Lib, Free Love, Hippies, the Grateful Dead, Drugs, Sex, Rock and Roll, the Beatles, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy... these are all words and people who bring back thoughts of the sixties. Many people state that 1964 was the beginning of the sixties, because of all the things that were happening. The sixties were a time in history that many people look back on and see a revolution. "The Last Innocent Year" was a long hard book to read. But I made it through finally. In the book, Margolis uses many short descriptive stories that help to explain what unfolded during America in 1964. The subjects range from John Kennedy's assassination in November 1963 to the events of the Free Speech Movement uprising at the University of California in December 1964.…