Author: M. J. HealePublisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing
ISBN: 9781579583453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Sixties in America
Author: M. J. HealePublisher: Dearborn Trade Publishing
ISBN: 9781579583453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Beatles and Sixties Britain
Author: Marcus CollinsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108477240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
In this rigorous study, Marcus Collins reconceives the Beatles' social, cultural and political impact on sixties Britain.
The World the Sixties Made
Author: Van GossePublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781592138463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right-wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? "The World the Sixties Made, "the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts that emphasize a conservative ascendancy. The essays in this volume survey a vast historical terrain to tease out the meaning of the not-so-long ago. They trace the ways in which recent U.S. culture and politics continue to be shaped by the legacy of the New Left's social movements, from feminism to gay liberation to black power. Together these essays demonstrate that the America that emerged in the 1970s was a nation profoundly, even radically democratized.
America in the Sixties
Author: John Robert GreenePublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815651333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
In America in the Sixties, Greene goes beyond the clichés and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Greene sketches the well-known players of the period—John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Betty Friedan—bringing each to life with subtle detail. He introduces the reader to lesser-known incidents of the decade and offers fresh and persuasive insights on many of its watershed events. Combining an engrossing narrative with intelligent analysis, America in the Sixties enriches our understanding of that pivotal era.
The Real Making of the President
Author: W. J. RorabaughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victory. Rorabaugh cuts through the mythology of this election to explain the operations of the campaign and offer a corrective to Theodore White's flawed classic, 'The Making of the President'.
Politically Incorrect Guide to the Sixties
Author: Jonathan LeafPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1596981202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Get ready to break on through to the other side as critically-acclaimed playwright and journalist Jonathan Leaf reveals the politically incorrect truth about one of the most controversial decades in historythe 1960s.
The Age of Entitlement
Author: Christopher CaldwellPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501106910
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House. Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences and his conclusion is this: even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high—in wealth, freedom, and social stability—and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell reveals the real political turning points of the past half-century, taking you on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycotin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules. Essential, timely, hard to put down, The Age of Entitlement “is an eloquent and bracing book, full of insight” (New York magazine) about how the reforms of the past fifty years gave the country two incompatible political systems—and drove it toward conflict.
The Other Side of the Sixties
Author: John A. AndrewPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813524016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contains primary source documents.
The Sixties
Author: Arthur MarwickPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448205425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
If the World Wars defined the first half of the twentieth century, the sixties defined the second half, acting as the pivot on which modern times have turned. From popular music to individual liberties, the tastes and convictions of the Western world are indelibly stamped with the impact of this tumultuous decade. Framing the sixties as a period stretching from 1958 to 1974, Arthur Marwick argues that this long decade ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution – one that raged most clearly in the United States, Britain, France, and Italy. Marwick recaptures the events and movements that shaped life as we know it: the rise of a youth subculture across the West; the sit-ins and marches of the civil rights movement; Britain's surprising rise to leadership in fashion and music; the emerging storm over Vietnam; the Paris student uprising of 1968; the growing force of feminism, and much more. For some, it was a golden age of liberation and political progress; for others, an era in which depravity was celebrated, and the secure moral and social framework subverted. The sixties was no short-term era of ecstasy and excess. On the contrary, the decade set the cultural and social agenda for the rest of the century, and left deep divisions still felt today.
Turning Right in the Sixties
Author: Mary C. BrennanPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807822302
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In Turning Right in the Sixties, Mary Brennan describes how conservative Americans from a variety of backgrounds, feeling disfranchised and ignored, joined forces to make their voices heard and by 1968 had gained enough power within the party to play the decisive role in determining who would be chosen as the presidential nominee. Building on Barry Goldwater's shortlived bid for the presidential nomination in 1960, Republican conservatives forged new coalitions, aided by an increasingly vocal conservative press, and began to organize at the grassroots level. Their goal was to nominate a conservative in the next election, and eventually they gained enough support to guarantee Goldwater the nomination in 1964. Liberal Republicans, as Brennan demonstrates, failed to stop this swing to the right. Brennan argues that Goldwater's loss to Lyndon Johnson in the general election has obscured the more significant fact that conservatives had wrestled control of the Republican Party from the moderates who had dominated it for years. The lessons conservatives learned in that campaign aided them in 1968 when they were able to force Richard Nixon to cast himself as a conservative candidate, says Brennan, and also laid the groundwork for Ronald Reagan's presidential victory in 1980.