Long time gone : looking back at sixties America / edited by Alexander Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Alexander, editor.

Series:

Viewpoints on American culture.

Oxford scholarship online.

Viewpoints on American culture

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political activists--United States--History--20th century.

Political activists.

Nineteen sixties.

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

United States.

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

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study examines the gulf between the history and mythology that has grown up around different aspects of the 1960s, ranging from the counterculture to gay rights, to the student and women's movements, and to the Johnson presidency.

Contents:

Contents; Sixties Timeline; Introduction: Why Read about the 1960's at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century?; The Movement We Helped to Make; "Of This Generation": The New Left and the Student Movement; Vietnam War Mythology and the Rise of Public Cynicism; Running Battle: Washington's War at Home; Lyndon Johnson and the Roots of Contemporary Conservatism; Negroes No More: The Emergence of Black Student Activism; Everything Seemed Beautiful: A Life in the Counterculture; Politics as Art, Art as Politics: The Freedom Singers, the Living Theatre, and Public Performance

Sources of the Second Wave: The Rebirth of Feminism Placing Gay in the Sixties

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028424-2

0-19-771438-2

1-280-47164-6

0-19-802894-6

1-60256-322-5

OCLC:

191038346