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Author : David Steigerwald
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312123031
Author : David Steigerwald
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312090074
This is an historical narrative that describes and analyzes the changes and excitement of the 60s. The author sees the period as one that proved Americans can do better than they have done in the me-decade of the 80s. He proposes that it was a time that rejected complacency in order to recover a zeal for the pursuit of excellence, for the nation to re-awaken to a sense of national mission and ideals; and a time when artists, intellectuals and the young offered alternatives to what the nation had become. The book focuses on what this period meant in US history, and addresses current issues, bringing an historical perspective to bear on issues of race, ethnicity and gender, among others.
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0198039727
Why did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today? Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins argues that a remarkable confluence of panics, scares, and a few genuine threats created a climate of fear that led to the conservative reaction. He identifies 1975 to 1986 as the watershed years. During this time, he says, there was a sharp increase in perceived threats to our security at home and abroad. At home, America seemed to be threatened by monstrous criminals--serial killers, child abusers, Satanic cults, and predatory drug dealers, to name just a few. On the international scene, we were confronted by the Soviet Union and its evil empire, by OPEC with its stranglehold on global oil, by the Ayatollahs who made hostages of our diplomats in Iran. Increasingly, these dangers began to be described in terms of moral evil. Rejecting the radicalism of the '60s, which many saw as the source of the crisis, Americans adopted a more pessimistic interpretation of human behavior, which harked back to much older themes in American culture. This simpler but darker vision ultimately brought us Ronald Reagan and the ascendancy of the political Right, which more than two decades later shows no sign of loosening its grip. Writing in his usual crisp and witty prose, Jenkins offers a truly original and persuasive account of a period that continues to fascinate the American public. It is bound to captivate anyone who lived through this period, as well as all those who want to understand the forces that transformed--and continue to define--the American political landscape.
Author : Peter B. Levy
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 1998-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0313299366
1. The 1950s: Happy Days and their Discontent; 2. The End of american Innocence; 3. The Black Freedom Struggle; 4. The Great Society and its Critics; 5. Vietnam; 6. American Culture at a Crossroads; 7. Women's Liberation and other movements; 8. Can the Center hold?; 9. Looking Backward; 10. The 1960s: A statistical Profile
Author : M. J. Heale
Publisher : Dearborn Trade Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781579583453
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : David Burner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1998-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691059532
This history of America in the 1960s covers the civil rights movement, Kennedy and the Cold War, the counter-culture and Beat Generation, the student rebellion, and the Vietnam War. It argues that liberalism self-destructed by emphasizing race and ethnicity instead of class and wealth.
Author : John Robert Greene
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0815651333
In America in the Sixties, Greene goes beyond the clichés and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Greene sketches the well-known players of the period—John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Betty Friedan—bringing each to life with subtle detail. He introduces the reader to lesser-known incidents of the decade and offers fresh and persuasive insights on many of its watershed events. Combining an engrossing narrative with intelligent analysis, America in the Sixties enriches our understanding of that pivotal era.
Author : Edward P. Morgan
Publisher :
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780877228059
"[The author] explores the compelling democratic vision that grounded Sixties movements and traces its evolution through the concrete experiences of the civil rights and black power movements, the new student left and the campus revolt, Vietnam and the antiwar movement, and the counterculture. Using first-person material, narrative accounts, and evocative excerpts from popular culture, he brings alive the vibrant energy and intense feelings generated by movement experiences. He also traces the connection of the women's and ecology movements to the Sixties experience, outlining their contribution, and that of a "revitalized Left," to the enduring legacies of the 1960s."--Back cover.
Author : Mark H. Lytle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 39,87 MB
Release : 2006-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0195174976
'America's Uncivil Wars' explores the social & cultural issues that preoccupied America in the years 1954-1974.
Author : Van Gosse
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2003-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1592132014
How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right-wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? The World the Sixties Made, the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts that emphasize a conservative ascendancy. The essays in this volume survey a vast historical terrain to tease out the meaning of the not-so-long ago. They trace the ways in which recent U.S. culture and politics continue to be shaped by the legacy of the New Left's social movements, from feminism to gay liberation to black power. Together these essays demonstrate that the America that emerged in the 1970s was a nation profoundly, even radically democratized.