The Sixties
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Cold War America: Seedbed of the 1960s; Won the War, Lost the Peace; Searching for Subversives; Ike Takes Charge; Creeping Conformity; Happy Days; Seeds of Discontent; Rebels Without a Cause; Great Expectations; 1 The Years of Hope and Idealism, 1960-1963; The Torch Has Been Passed; Communism Abroad; Civil Rights at Home; Khrushchev; Prodding JFK; ""One Hell of a Gamble""; King; Diem; Kennedy; 2 The Pinnacle of Liberalism, 1964-1965 ; The Rights Revolution; Johnson Liberalism; Freedom Summer; Sixties Generation
- Tonkin Gulf and the 1964 ElectionLaunching the Great Society; LBJ Expands Civil Rights; LBJ Americanizes the Vietnam War; Great Society; 3 Days of Decision, 1965-1967; ""A Time Bomb of Black Rage""; ""We'll Lick Them""; Black Power!; Riots, Rebellion, and Responses; My Country, Right or Wrong?; Summer of Discontent; Summer of Love; ""Vietnam Is Here""; 4 1968; LBJ's Decline and Fall; ""I've Been to the Mountaintop""; Revolution?; Gene and Bobby; The Silent Majority; Chicago 1968 ; 1968 Finale; 5 From Counterculture to Sixties Culture; ""There Must Be Some Way Out of Here""; Weltanschauung
- Builders of the DawnTribal Gatherings; The Establishment's Nightmare; ""America will Never Be the Same Again""; 6 Days of Discord, 1969-1970 ; Nixon; Third-World Revolutionaries and Militants; Empowerment; Liberation; ""'Enough!' to War""; Green Power; Civil War; 7 The Climax and Demise of the Sixties, 1970-1973 ; Sixties Culture; Strike for Equality; Nixon; Vietnam: Fatal Wounds; Think Global: Act Local; ""Women in Revolt""; Climax; New Democrats versus Nixon; Demise; Legacies: The Decade of Tumult and Change; Politics; Minorities; Women; LGBTQ community; Students; Foreign Policy; Culture