America in the sixties /
Sandwiched between the placid fifties and the flamboyant seventies, the sixties, a decade of tumultuous change and stunning paradoxes, is often reduced to a series of slogans, symbols, and media images. In this book the author goes beyond the cliches and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
2010.
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ISBN: | 9780815651338 0815651333 |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Comfort and crisis : the 1950s
- "The torch has been passed to a new generation" : the myths of John F. Kennedy
- "We shall overcome" : civil rights in the South, 1960-1965
- "We'll have the opportunity to move upward" : the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson
- "As American as cherry pie" : civil rights, 1965-1969
- "Bodies upon the gears" : the new left and the new feminism
- "Waist deep in the big muddy" : Vietnam, 1960-1967
- "What it is ain't exactly clear" : sixties culture, straight and counter
- The limits of power : to reform the sixties.