America's Uncivil Wars : The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon
ISBN: 9780195174977 | 0195174976
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 2/10/2006
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In contrast with most histories of this period, America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon does not treat the 1960s as a single historical moment or as successive waves of activism. Rather, it employs a chronological narrative to identify three distinct phases during which events of the era unfolded. The first began with the cultural ferment of the 1950s and ended with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. During the second phase, from 1964-1968, the "uncivil" wars began in earnest: Americans disagreed about... MORE
| Preface | ix | ||||
| INTRODUCTION | 1 | (12) | |||
| PART ONE The Era of Consensus, 1954-63 | |||||
| 13 | (13) | |||
| 26 | (18) | |||
| 44 | (28) | |||
| 72 | (24) | |||
| 96 | (20) | |||
| 116 | (27) | |||
| PART TWO The Sixties, 1964-68 | |||||
| 143 | (31) | |||
| 174 | (20) | |||
| 194 | (23) | |||
| 217 | (23) | |||
| 240 | (29) | |||
| PART THREE The Rise of Essentialist Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon, 1969-74 | |||||
| 269 | (20) | |||
| 289 | (27) | |||
| 316 | (18) | |||
| 334 | (23) | |||
| 357 | (18) | |||
| EPILOGUE Who Won? | 375 | (5) | |||
| Notes on Sources | 380 | (13) | |||
| Index | 393 |
Mark Hamilton Lytle is Professor of History and Director of the Historical Studies Program and Codirector of the American Studies Program at Bard College.
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