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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Klaus P Fischer |
| ISBN: | 0826418163 9780826418166 |
| OCLC Number: | 64510974 |
| Description: | xi, 452 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction : -- A voice from the silent generation -- The way we were : before and after the 1960s -- An age of protest -- 2. Fault lines in a land of perfection : -- The myth of a perfect beginning -- Immigration : more pluribus than Unum? -- The flaws of consensus liberalism -- Beacon or crusader : splits in American foreign policy -- The racist blood-knot in American history -- 3. The pig in the python : a generation of vipers? : -- Baby boomers and their parents -- the American horn of plenty : paradox and portent -- The emergence of a teenage subculture -- 4. John F. Kennedy and the Camelot image : -- Kennedy the man and the leader : image and reality -- The Kennedy administration : the best and the brightest? -- Eyeball to eyeball : the world at the nuclear brink -- The trauma of November 22, 1963, and its aftermath -- JFK : the legacy -- 5. Searching for the promised land : Black civil rights : -- Sit-down protests in the South -- Freedom rides -- Voter registration -- Black nationalism -- The end of the second Reconstruction -- 6. Liberalism at high tide under Lyndon Johnson : -- A Texan in the White House -- The Great Society -- Liberal justice : the Warren court -- From Great Society to sick society -- 7. Vietnam and protest : -- Approaching a quagmire -- Paying any price and bearing any burden -- Hot Damn Vietnam : LBJ and the war -- Hell no, we won't go -- Nixon's war and defeat in Vietnam -- The end of victory culture? -- 8. The crisis of 1968 : the fall of liberalism : -- A speculative stampede on gold -- Losing the streets : the crisis of law and order -- The "dump Johnson" movement -- Thunder from the right -- Miami, Chicago, and the election of 1968 -- 9. A young generation in revolt : -- America awash in rebellious young people -- The new left and student militancy in the 1960s -- The catalyst : the free speech movement at Berkeley -- From protest to "revolutionary action" -- Students at war with the establishment -- Radical terrorism and the conservative reaction -- Black student militancy -- The student right -- Coda -- 10. Countercultural protest movements : -- Was there a counterculture? -- The myth of the Woodstock nation -- Back to nature : the commune movement -- It's the music, stupid! -- Counterculture into consumer culture -- 11. Riding the coattails of revolt : neglected minorities : -- Women's liberation -- Radical feminism -- Coming out of the closet : gay men -- Brown power -- Red power -- The minority rights problem : more pluribus than Unum? -- 12. Peering into the historical looking glass : -- Fault lines revisited -- Consumer culture is boomer culture -- The great cultural implosion -- The end of shame and guilt -- The indigestible sixties. |
| Responsibility: | Klaus P. Fischer. |
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Abstract:
The 1960s unleashed a host of pent-up social and generational conflicts that had not been experienced since the Civil War: intense racial and ethnic strife, cold war terror, the Vietnam War, counter-cultural protests, controversial social engineering, and political rancour. This book integrates the related components using a scholarly analysis.
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- United States -- History -- 1961-1969.
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