Growing up in a land called Honalee : the Sixties in the lives of American children / Joel P. Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rhodes, Joel P., 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--United States--History--20th century.

Children.

Nineteen sixties--Children.

Nineteen sixties.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vii, 342 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First printing.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : Univ of Missouri Press [2017]

Summary:

Because the preadolescent years are, according to the child development researchers, the most formative, Joel P. Rhodes focuses on the cohort born between 1956 and 1970 who have never been quantitatively defined as a generation, but whose preadolescent world was nonetheless quite distinct from that of the "baby boomers." Rhodes examines how this group understood the historical forces of the 1960s as children, and how they made meaning of these forces based on their developmental age. He is concerned not only with the immediate imprint of the 1960s on their young lives, but with how their perspective on the era influenced them as adults.

Contents:

Introduction

John F. Kennedy

Space rockets and Cuban missiles

The assassination

LBJ and the great society

The southern struggle for civil rights

The Vietnam War

Hippies

Women's liberation

Conclusions.

Notes:

Contains bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index.

ISBN:

9780826221278

0826221270

OCLC:

969829727