The Sixties : from memory to history / edited by David Farber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farber, David, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--1961-1969.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1994.

Summary:

This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960's onto the larger canvas of American history.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Growth Liberalism in the Sixties; Great Societies at Home and Grand Designs Abroad; 2. The American State and the Vietnam War; A Genealogy of Power; 3. And That's the Way It Was; The Vietnam War on the Network Nightly News; 4. Race, Ethnicity, and the Evolution of Political Legitimacy; 5. Nothing Distant about It; Women's Liberation and Sixties Radicalism; 6. The New American Revolution; The Movement and Business; 7. Who'll Stop the Rain?; Youth Culture, Rock 'n' Roll, and Social Crises; 8. Sexual Revolution(s); 9. The Politics of Civility

10. The Silent Majority and Talk about Revolution Contributors; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890865649

9781469608730

1469608731

OCLC:

821182010