What We’re Reading: Kevin Boyle and Ron Howard both wrote books about the forgotten parts of the 1960s

I’ve been reading a couple of books about the 1960s.

But it’s not the ‘60s you know, it’s not the highlight reel you see in your head whenever someone just mentions . It’s not Stones and Dylan, astronauts and MLK Jr. It’s the other ‘60s, those less dramatic but jus as influential reels we rarely see. It’s why, after I finished “The Shattering” (Norton, $32), Kevin Boyle’s eagerly anticipated new history, I drove to the 6100 block of West Eddy, on the Northwest Side. Just to peek. It’s a bungalow strip, like a thousand bungalow strips in Chicago. Yet Eddy Street plays the bookends in “The Shattering” for a thoughtful reason: It was spectacularly unspectacular throughout the ‘60s. And it was not unique. Except for one thing: Ed Cahill, an Eddy resident and World