Tim Null’s Reviews > The Girl I Left Behind: A Narrative History of the Sixties > Status Update

Why are the sixties remembered as being a decade of sex, drugs, and rock n roll, when actually it was a decade of assassinations, war, and rock n roll?

"The war in Vietnam transformed what might have been known as a civil rights decade in America and a liberal era into the radical decade we know as 'the sixties'."

"If your central religious image is a woman giving birth..., war and death might not be so dominant."