[PDF] Sixties At 40 eBook

Author : Ben Agger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317252020

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Based on recent interviews, this unique sixties book brings together the voices of the Left leaders who spawned the sixties movements. Many remain activists today, and experience and the passage of time allow them to transcend nostalgia to form more realistic perspectives on past, present, and future. They discuss the civil rights and antiwar movements, the political outcome of the sixties, patriotism, terror, and the role of young people in the future. Important gains were made during the sixties, but there were many setbacks, too, that influence today's voters, leaders, candidates, and our day-to-day realities. The sixties of this book are not simply a sweet memory of marijuana and album rock; there were many casualties, including innocence and youthful idealism. Agger concludes with reflections on the possibilities of a next Left, which was already faintly visible in young people's massive support of Obama's presidential candidacy.

Author : George Brondsema
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2006-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781424102143

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Like many young men that were born into the era immediately following the end of World War II, George Brondsema was brought up with the belief that there was no higher calling than to serve one's country through military service. Patriotism was undeniable, and following in the footsteps of your father, who had just defended this country, made this an easy choice for many young men. In early 1965, most people in the United States had probably never even heard of Vietnam and wouldn't be able to locate it on a map. Over the next decade it would become all too familiar. This is a story of one young man's experience in dealing with a war that divided a nation and made us more cynical as a people. There have been many books written about this time and place in history-this is just one man's experience, and doesn't attempt to speak for all those who spent their youth and subsequent life dealing with the aftermath. One thing is crystal clear, however-these young men didn't create this war or lose it. Not one major battle was ever lost! These men were made to feel that they somehow failed the country, but the reality is that this country failed them.

Author : Christopher Caldwell
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1501106910

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A major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House. Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences and his conclusion is this: even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high—in wealth, freedom, and social stability—and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell reveals the real political turning points of the past half-century, taking you on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycotin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules. Essential, timely, hard to put down, The Age of Entitlement “is an eloquent and bracing book, full of insight” (New York magazine) about how the reforms of the past fifty years gave the country two incompatible political systems—and drove it toward conflict.

Author : Rachel C. Weingarten
Publisher :
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781933112183

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Women have been beautifying themselves for centuries - curling, slimming, cleansing, moisturising, and deoderising in an effort to be more lovely. Discover the products that kicked off the beauty frenzy during the 1940s-1960s through more than 300 illustrated advertisements.

Author : Lilly J. Goren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501306359

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"Explored through a broadly political lens, this book examines the various political themes and historical issues seen and presented on AMC's Mad Men while analyzing the contemporary appeal of a television show situated in the 1960s"--

Author : Meryl Harstein
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1504330277

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After dealing with abuse, divorce, cancer, a daughters addiction, and a special needs grandchild, author Meryl Hartstein has discovered how to live a life of positivity. By learning to be confident internally, externally, and eternally, your life will be based on knowing your self-worth and never accepting anything less than you deserve!

Author : John Downton Hazlett
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299157845

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John Hazlett's engaging study of writers from the 1960s demonstrates the ways in which the idea of the generation has affected autobiographical writing in this century. Autobiographers from the sixties claim to speak on behalf of all members of their generation. However, each writer presents a unique political and personal agenda.

Author : Laura Jane Gifford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,24 MB
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1137014792

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The 1960s were a transformative era for American politics, but much is still unknown about the growth of conservatism during the period when it was radically reshaped and became the national political force that it is today. In their efforts to chronicle the national politicians and organizations that led the movement, previous histories have often neglected local perspectives, the role of religion, transnational exchange, and other aspects that help to explain conservatism's enduring influence in American politics. Taken together, the contributions gathered here offer a cutting-edge synthesis that incorporates these overlooked developments and provides new insights into the way that the 1960s shaped the trajectory of postwar conservatism.

Author : Bryn Jones
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 10,54 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0857285734

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'Sixties Radicalism and Social Movement Activism' explores and re-analyses major events, debates and themes from the radical developments of the nineteen sixties and relates them to contemporary social movements and issues.