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The Sixties

ISBN: 9780321421678 | 0321421671

Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2007

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Summary Table of Contents

In "The Sixties," Terry Anderson tackles the question of why American experienced a full decade of tumult and change, whose reverberations and consequences are still being felt in America today. Always appreciated for its brevity, wit and captivating style, "The Sixties" enters its third edition with expanded coverage of the most interesting and important events, people and movements of the Sixties.

Preface

INTRODUCTION

Cold War America: Seedbed of the 1960's

(1)

Won the War, Lost the Peace,

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Searching for Subversives,

(3)

Ike Takes Charge,

(1)

Creeping Conformity,

(2)

Happy Days,

(1)

Seeds of Discontent,

(6)

Rebels Without a Cause,

(1)

Great Expectations,

(2)

CHAPTER 1 The Years of Hope and Idealism, 1960-1963

(26)

The Torch Has Been Passed,

(3)

Communism Abroad,

(2)

Civil Rights at Home,

(3)

Khrushchev,

(1)

Prodding JFK,

(2)

"One Hell of a Gamble,"

(2)

King,

(4)

Diem,

(1)

Kennedy,

(5)

CHAPTER 2 The Pinnacle of Liberalism, 1964-1965

(28)

The Rights Revolution,

(3)

Johnson Liberalism,

(4)

Freedom Summer,

(3)

Sixties Generation,

(3)

Tonkin Gulf and the 1964 Election,

(3)

Launching the Great Society,

(1)

LBJ Expands Civil Rights,

(2)

LBJ Americanizes the Vietnam War,

(2)

Great Society,

(7)

CHAPTER 3 Days of Decision, 1965-1967

(28)

"A Time Bomb of Black Rage,"

(2)

"We'll Lick Them,"

(5)

Black Power!,

(4)

Riots, Rebellion, and Responses,

(2)

My Country, Right or Wrong?,

(6)

Summer of Discontent,

(2)

Summer of Love,

(3)

"Vietnam Is Here,"

(4)

CHAPTER 4 1968

101

(25)

LBJ's Decline and Fall,

104

(3)

"I've Been to the Mountaintop,"

107

(1)

Revolution?,

108

(3)

Gene and Bobby,

111

(3)

The Silent Majority,

114

(2)

Chicago 1968,

116

(5)

1968 Finale,

121

(5)

CHAPTER 5 From Counterculture to Sixties Culture

126

(23)

"There Must Be Some Way Out of Here,"

128

(4)

Weltanschauung,

132

(7)

Builders of the Dawn,

139

(2)

Tribal Gatherings,

141

(2)

The Establishment's Nightmare,

143

(2)

"America Will Never Be the Same Again,"

145

(4)

CHAPTER 6 Days of Discord, 1969-1970

149

(28)

Nixon,

149

(5)

Third-World Revolutionaries and Militants,

154

(4)

Empowerment,

158

(5)

Liberation,

163

(5)

"Enough!' to War,"

168

(3)

Green Power,

171

(1)

Civil War,

172

(5)

CHAPTER 7 The Climax and Demise of the Sixties, 1970-1973

177

(25)

Sixties Culture,

177

(1)

Strike for Equality,

178

(2)

Nixon,

180

(2)

Vietnam: Fatal Wounds,

182

(6)

Think Global: Act Local,

188

(1)

"Women in Revolt,"

189

(3)

Climax,

192

(1)

New Democrats versus Nixon,

193

(6)

Demise,

199

(3)

LEGACIES The Decade of Tumult and Change

202

(12)

Politics,

202

(2)

Minorities,

204

(2)

Women,

206

(2)

Students,

208

(1)

Foreign Policy,

208

(3)

Culture,

211

(3)

Additional Reading

214

(5)

Filmography

219

(1)

Photo Credits

220

(1)

Index

221

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