America in White, Black, and gray : the stormy 1960s / Klaus P. Fischer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer, Klaus P., 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems.

History.

United States--History--1961-1969.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

Social conditions.

Social problems--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.

Nineteen sixties.

Physical Description:

xi, 452 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2006.

Summary:

The 1960s unleashed a host of pent-up social and generational conflicts that had not been experienced since the Civil War: intense racial and ethnic strife, cold war terror, the Vietnam War, counter-cultural protests, controversial social engineering, and political rancour. This book integrates the related components using a scholarly analysis.

Contents:

1 A Voice from the Silent Generation 1

2 The Way We Were: Before and After the 1960s 8

3 An Age of Protest 14

2 Fault Lines in a Land of Perfection 20

1 The Myth of a Perfect Beginning 20

2 Immigration: More Pluribus Than Unum? 23

3 The Flaws of Consensus Liberalism 25

4 Beacon or Crusader: Splits in American Foreign Policy 35

5 The Racist Blood-Knot in American History 43

3 The Pig in the Python: A Generation of Vipers? 53

1 Baby Boomers and Their Parents 53

2 The American Horn of Plenty: Paradox and Portent 56

3 The Emergence of a Teenage Subculture 63

4 John F. Kennedy and the Camelot Image 73

1 Kennedy the Man and the Leader: Image and Reality 73

2 The Kennedy Administration: The Best and the Brightest? 78

3 Eyeball to Eyeball: The World at the Nuclear Brink 85

4 The Trauma of November 22, 1963, and Its Aftermath 88

5 JFK: The Legacy 99

5 Searching for the Promised Land: Black Civil Rights 106

1 Sit-down Protests in the South 106

2 Freedom Rides 109

3 Voter Registration 112

4 Black Nationalism 125

5 The End of the Second Reconstruction 133

6 Liberalism at High Tide Under Lyndon Johnson 137

1 A Texan in the White House 137

2 The Great Society 145

3 Liberal Justice: The Warren Court 159

4 From Great Society to Sick Society 167

7 Vietnam and Protest 170

1 Approaching a Quagmire 170

2 Paying Any Price and Bearing Any Burden 177

3 Hot Damn Vietnam: LBJ and the War 181

4 Hell No, We Won't Go 187

5 Nixon's War and Defeat in Vietnam 200

6 The End of Victory Culture? 206

8 The Crisis of 1968: The Fall of Liberalism 212

1 A Speculative Stampede on Gold 212

2 Losing the Streets: The Crisis of Law and Order 215

3 The "Dump Johnson" Movement 222

4 Thunder from the Right 235

5 Miami, Chicago, and the Election of 1968 242

9 A Young Generation in Revolt 252

1 America Awash in Rebellious Young People 252

2 The New Left and Student Militancy in the 1960s 257

3 The Catalyst: The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley 260

4 From Protest to "Revolutionary Action" 265

5 Students at War with the Establishment 269

6 Radical Terrorism and the Conservative Reaction 275

7 Black Student Militancy 281

8 The Student Right 288

10 Countercultural Protest Movements 295

1 Was There a Counterculture? 295

2 The Myth of the Woodstock Nation 298

3 Back to Nature: The Commune Movement 312

4 It's the Music, Stupid! 317

5 Counterculture into Consumer Culture 331

11 Riding the Coattails of Revolt: Neglected Minorities 336

1 Women's Liberation 336

2 Radical Feminism 338

3 Coming out of the Closet: Gay Men 344

4 Brown Power 346

5 Red Power 354

6 The Minority Rights Problem: More Pluribus Than Unum? 360

12 Peering into the Historical Looking Glass 363

1 Fault Lines Revisited 363

2 Consumer Culture is Boomer Culture 366

3 The Great Cultural Implosion 368

4 The End of Shame and Guilt 375

5 The Indigestible Sixties 381.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-438) and index.

ISBN:

0826418163

OCLC:

64510974

Publisher Number:

9780826418166