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Sixties: From Memory to History

Sixties: From Memory to History

Farber, David

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0807844624
ISBN13: 9780807844625
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Sep 16 1994
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from fresh perspectives.

The essayists ask fundamental questions about how much America really changed in the 1960s and why certain changes took place. In separate chapters, they explore how the great issues of the decade -- the war in Vietnam, race relations, youth culture, the status of women, the public role of private enterprise -- were shaped by evolutions in the nature of cultural authority and political legitimacy. They argue that the whirlwind of events and problems we call the Sixties can only be understood in the context of the larger history of post-World War II America.

Contents
Growth Liberalism in the Sixties: Great Societies at Home and Grand Designs Abroad, by Robert M. Collins
The American State and the Vietnam War: A Genealogy of Power, by Mary Sheila McMahon
And That's the Way It Was: The Vietnam War on the Network Nightly News, by Chester J. Pach, Jr.
Race, Ethnicity, and the Evolution of Political Legitimacy, by David R. Colburn and George E. Pozzetta
Nothing Distant about It: Women's Liberation and Sixties Radicalism, by Alice Echols
The New American Revolution: The Movement and Business, by Terry H. Anderson
Who'll Stop the Rain?: Youth Culture, Rock 'n' Roll, and Social Crises, by George Lipsitz
Sexual Revolution(s), by Beth Bailey
The Politics of Civility, by Kenneth Cmiel
The Silent Majority and Talk about Revolution, by David Farber

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