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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Main Author: Greene, John Robert, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2010.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
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.