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The Sixties

ISBN: 9780321011282 | 0321011287
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 10/1/1998

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SummaryTable 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.

This brief text explores the significant political, foreign policy, and social events from the 1960 Greensboro sit-in... MORE
Prefacevii
Introduction Cold War America, 1945--19601(209)
Won the War, Lost the Peace
1(3)
Searching for Subversives
... MORE
4(2)
Ike Takes Charge
6(1)
Creeping Conformity
7(2)
Happy Days
9(1)
Seeds of Discontent
10(6)
Rebels Without a Cause
16(1)
Great Epectations
17(2)
The Years of Hope and Idealism, 1960--1963
19(26)
Passing the Torch
22(4)
Communism Abroad
26(1)
Civil Rights at Home
27(3)
Krushchev
30(1)
Prodding JFK
31(2)
``One hell of a gamble,''
33(2)
King
35(5)
Diem
40(1)
Kennedy
41(4)
The Pinnacle of Liberalism, 1964--1965
45(28)
Warren Court and the Rights Revolution
45(3)
Johnson Liberalism
48(3)
Freedom Summer
51(3)
Sixties Generation
54(4)
Tonkin Gulf and the '64 Election
58(3)
Launching the Great Society
61(1)
LBJ Expands Civil Rights
62(2)
LBJ Americanizes the Vietnam War
64(2)
Great Society
66(7)
Days of Decision, 1965--1967
73(29)
``A time bomb of black rage,''
73(3)
``We'll lick them,''
76(6)
Black Power!
82(3)
Riots and Responses
85(2)
My Country, Right or Wrong?
87(5)
Summer of Discontent
92(3)
Summer of Love
95(3)
``Vietnam is here,''
98(4)
1968
102(27)
LBJ's Decline and Fall
105(3)
``I've been to the mountaintop,''
108(2)
Revolution?
110(4)
Gene and Bobby
114(2)
Silent Majority, Wallace, and the New Nixon
116(3)
Chicago '68
119(5)
'68 Finale
124(5)
From Counterculture to Sixties Culture
129(24)
``There must be some way out of here,''
131(4)
Values
135(5)
Social Thought
140(3)
Builders of the Dawn
143(2)
Tribal Gatherings
145(2)
The Empire Strikes Back
147(2)
``America will never be the same again,''
149(4)
Days of Discord, 1969--1970
153(28)
Nixon
154(5)
Third World Revolutionaries and Militants
159(4)
Empowerment
163(4)
Liberation
167(5)
``Enough!' to War,''
172(3)
Green Power
175(2)
Civil War
177(4)
The Crescendo, and Demise of the Sixties, 1970--1973
181(29)
Sixties Culture
181(1)
Strike for Equality
182(2)
Nixon
184(2)
Vietnam: Fatal Wounds
186(6)
Think Global: Act Local
192(2)
``Women in Revolt,''
194(2)
Crescendo
196(3)
New Democrats Versus Nixon
199(7)
Demise
206(4)
Legacies The Decade of Tumult and Change210(13)
Politics
210(3)
Minorities
213(3)
Women
216(2)
Students
218(1)
Foreign Policy
218(2)
Culture
220(3)
Additional Reading223(6)
Kennedy Years
223(1)
LBJ
223(1)
Warren Court
224(1)
Civil Rights
224(1)
Vietnam
225(1)
Protest, Youth and Counterculture
226(1)
Women's Liberation
227(1)
Chicanos and Native Americans
227(1)
Nixon
227(2)
Photo Acknowledgments229(2)
Index231

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