The Sixties

This is the second collection of Christopher Isherwood's diaries, and it carries his record of daily life through the 1960s. The decade is also the one in which his semiautobiographical novel Goodbye to Berlin became the stage musical Cabaret, which won a Tony Award.

The entries pass through a decade of sweeping change: the early days of space travel, pop art, mod fashion, and the Kennedy and Nixon election. They also cover the romance of Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger, the growth of the hippie movement, and the violent unrest that broke out in America's cities.

Isherwood's circle of friends included painters Francis Bacon and David Hockney, actors Richard Burton, and writer Gore Vidal. Throughout the volume, Isherwood also continues his long relationship with the portrait artist Don Bachardy.