The Sixties in America: Giovanni, Nikki-SANE (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy)
Title | The Sixties in America: Giovanni, Nikki-SANE (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy) PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Singleton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
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Contains alphabetically arranged entries that survey the events and people of the 1960s, discussing their impact on the life and culture of the United States.
America in the Sixties
Title | America in the Sixties PDF eBook |
Author | John Robert Greene |
Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 2010-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0815651333 |
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 Sixties in America
Title | The Sixties in America PDF eBook |
Author | M. J. Heale |
Publisher | Dearborn Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781579583453 |
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Sixties and the End of Modern America
Title | The Sixties and the End of Modern America PDF eBook |
Author | David Steigerwald |
Publisher | Forge Books |
Total Pages | 328 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780312090074 |
This is an historical narrative that describes and analyzes the changes and excitement of the 60s. The author sees the period as one that proved Americans can do better than they have done in the me-decade of the 80s. He proposes that it was a time that rejected complacency in order to recover a zeal for the pursuit of excellence, for the nation to re-awaken to a sense of national mission and ideals; and a time when artists, intellectuals and the young offered alternatives to what the nation had become. The book focuses on what this period meant in US history, and addresses current issues, bringing an historical perspective to bear on issues of race, ethnicity and gender, among others.
The Age of Entitlement
Title | The Age of Entitlement PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Caldwell |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2021-01-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501106910 |
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 Long Sixties
Title | The Long Sixties PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher B. Strain |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2016-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 047067363X |
The Long Sixties is a concise and engaging treatment of the major political, social, and cultural developments of this tumultuous period. A comprehensive yet concise overview that offers coverage of a variety of topics, from the beginnings of the Cold War shortly after World War II, through the civil rights, women’s, and Chicano civil rights movements, to Watergate, an event that transpired in 1974 but capped the “Long Sixties.” A detached and unprejudiced look at this turbulent decade, that is both lively and revelatory Timelines are included to help students understand how particular episodes transpired in quick succession, and how topics intertwined and overlapped Nicely complemented by Brian Ward’s The 1960s: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), The Long Sixties book matches the documentary reader chapter-by-chapter in theme and periodization
America Divided
Title | America Divided PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Isserman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195091906 |
A definitive account of the turbulent 1960s, "America Divided" presents the most sophisticated understanding to date of all sides of the decade's many political, social, and cultural conflicts. 45 photos.