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America's Uncivil Wars : The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon

ISBN: 9780195174960 | 0195174968
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 9/1/2005

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Here is a panoramic history of America from 1954 to 1973, ranging from the buoyant teen-age rebellion first captured by rock and roll, to the drawn-out and dispiriting endgame of Watergate. In America's Uncivil Wars, Mark Lytle illuminates the great social, cultural, and political upheavals of the era. He begins his chronicle surprisingly early, in the late '50s and early '60s, when A-bomb protests and books ranging from Catcher in the Rye, to Silent Spring and The Feminine Mystique challenged attitudes towards sexuality and the military-indust... MORE
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Prefaceix
Introduction1(12)
PART ONE The Era of Consensus, 1954--63
The Consensus
13(13)
The Cultural Cold War
26(18)
Cracks in the Consensus
44(28)
The New Generation
72(24)
The Cold War on the New Frontier
96(20)
The Second Civil War
116(27)
PART TWO The Sixties, 1964--68
1964: Welcome to the 1960s
143(31)
Teach-in, Strike Out: The Uncivil Wars Heat Up
174(20)
The Great Freak Forward
194(23)
A Very Bad Year Begins
217(23)
A Bad Year Gets Worse: The Domestic War Front
240(29)
PART THREE The Rise of Essentialist Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon, 1969--74
The Rise of Gender and Identity Politics
269(20)
Identities of Race and Ethnicity
289(27)
Taking on the System
316(18)
The Uncivil Wars: Woodstock to Kent State
334(23)
Watergate: The Last Battle
357(18)
Epilogue Who Won?375(5)
Notes on Sources380(13)
Index393

Mark Hamilton Lytle is a Professor of History and Director of the Historical Studies Program and is Codirector of the American Studies Program at Bard College. He is the coauthor of After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection and Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic.

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