Maggie's Farm

Excellent review of the real 1960s, by Bruce Bawer in the Wilson Quarterly. I was there then, and he got it right. Useful for those of you all who are too young, or can't remember... 

"To those on the right, the 1950s were the last good time, an era of sanity and maturity, order and discipline, of adults behaving like adults and children knowing their place. To those on the left, the 1950s were a time of fatuous complacency, mindless materialism, and stultifying conformism—not to mention racism, sexism, and other ugly prejudices. By contrast, “The Sixties,” for conservatives, were an explosion of puerile irresponsibility and fashionable rebellion, the wellspring of today’s ubiquitous identity politics, debased high culture, sexual permissiveness, and censorious political correctness. For liberals, the period was a desperately needed corrective that drew attention to America’s injustices and started us down the road toward greater fairness and equality for all." 

That's the beginning, but it gets better, and less stereotyped:  http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.essay&essay_id=68646