260 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The sixth edition of The Sixties is a provocative account of a transformative era in American history, exploring the significant political, social, and cultural changes that many citizens found to be not only necessary, but mandatory. The book explores the 1960s both chronologically and thematically, from the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins and presidential election to the early 1970s and the fight... Read more

Introduction: Cold War America: Seedbed of the 1960s  1. The Years of Hope and Idealism, 1960–1963  2. The Pinnacle of Liberalism, 1964–1965  3. Days of Decision, 1965–1967  4. 1968  5. From Counterculture to Sixties Culture  6. Days of Discord, 1969–1970  7. The Climax and Demise of the Sixties, 1970–1973  Legacies: The Decade of Tumult and Change

Biography

Terry H. Anderson is Professor and Cornerstone Faculty Fellow of History at Texas A&M University. A Vietnam veteran, his other books include Why The Nineties Matter (2024), Bush’s Wars (2012), The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action (2004), The Movement and The Sixties (1995), A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) with fighter ace Charles R. Bond, and The United States, Great Britain and the Cold War, 19441947 (1981).