Chronicle of Growing Up in the Sixties Author:Joyce Maynard Looking Back is a 19-year old's personal recollection of the tumultuous decade in which she grew up, with its mixture of the momentous and the mundane: space shots, civil rights marches, the miniskrits, the JFK assassination, bomb shelters, purple eye shadow, peace demonstrations. What Maynard writes in an American drama-of a generation of chil... more »dren deprived of their childhood. A thoughtful amd eloquent personal statement.« less