The Sixties : from memory to history

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The Sixties : from memory to history

edited by David Farber

University of North Carolina Press, c1994

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This collection of original essays represents some of the most exciting ways in which historians are beginning to paint the 1960s onto the larger canvas of American history. While the first literature about this turbulent period was written largely by participants, many of the contributors to this volume are young scholars who came of age intellectually in the 1970s and 1980s and thus write from fresh perspectives. The essayists ask fundamental questions about how much America really changed in the 1960s and why certain changes took place. In separate chapters, they explore how the great issues of the decade--the war in Vietnam, race relations, youth culture, the status of women, the public role of private enterprise--were shaped by evolutions in the nature of cultural authority and political legitimacy. They argue that the whirlwind of events and problems we call the Sixties can only be understood in the context of the larger history of post-World War II America. Contents ""Growth Liberalism in the Sixties: Great Societies at Home and Grand Designs Abroad,"" by Robert M. Collins ""The American State and the Vietnam War: A Genealogy of Power,"" by Mary Sheila McMahon ""And That's the Way It Was: The Vietnam War on the Network Nightly News,"" by Chester J. Pach, Jr. ""Race, Ethnicity, and the Evolution of Political Legitimacy,"" by David R. Colburn and George E. Pozzetta ""Nothing Distant about It: Women's Liberation and Sixties Radicalism,"" by Alice Echols ""The New American Revolution: The Movement and Business,"" by Terry H. Anderson ""Who'll Stop the Rain?: Youth Culture, Rock 'n' Roll, and Social Crises,"" by George Lipsitz ""Sexual Revolution(s),"" by Beth Bailey ""The Politics of Civility,"" by Kenneth Cmiel ""The Silent Majority and Talk about Revolution,"" by David Farber

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  • NCID
    BA23846000
  • ISBN
    • 0807821535
    • 9780807844625
  • LCCN
    93040102
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Chapel Hill
  • Pages/Volumes
    333 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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