• "The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats": The Beat Generation and American Culture, Edited by Holly George-Warren.

     

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Published: 01.12.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays '"The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats": The Beat Generation and American Culture,', 1.
  • Essays '"The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats": The Beat Generation and American Culture,', 2.
  • Essays '"The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats": The Beat Generation and American Culture,', 3.
  • Essays '"The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats": The Beat Generation and American Culture,', 4.
  • Essays '"The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats": The Beat Generation and American Culture,', 5.
Extract

The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats is aN in-depth and complete collection of several essays about the Beat generation and its intense influence on literature and American culture. The list of contributors to the book is amazing. Writers, musicians, actors, and even some of the Beats themselves contributed essays, photographs, and drawings to the book.
The book is organized very well, and serves as not only a good book for research, but also remains a "coffee table book". It straddles that line quite nicely, something few books can do. It is organized into five chapters, with several…

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