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Routledge
No other decade of the twentieth century has acquired the mythological status of the 1960s. For the United States this was the decade of the Camelot presidency of John F. Kennedy and the ruined presidency of Lyndon Johnson, of the great civil rights March on Washington and the assassination of Martin Luther King. It was the decade of the escalating war in Vietnam and the thrusting youth and peace... Read more
Introduction; Part One: Spirit and Context; 1. The Spirit of the Sixties: An Age of Activism; 2. The Sixties in Perspective: Society, Economy, and Polity; Part Two: Politics at Home and Abroad; 3. The Politics of Hope: From Kennedy to Johnson; 4. The United States in the World: From Hubris to Humiliation; 5. The Politics of Reaction: From Johnson to Nixon; Part Three: Popular Protest and New Movements; 6. The African American Revolt: From Civil Rights to Black Power; 7. Protest: Youth, Peace, and Women's Movements; Conclusion; Suggestions for Further Reading.
Biography
M.J. Heale
