A fiction of the past : the sixties in American history
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A fiction of the past : the sixties in American history
Palgrave, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-278) and index
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Description
Few events during that whirlwind of movements, conflicts and upheaval known as "the sixties" took Americans more by surprise, or were more likely to inspire their rage, than the rebellion of those who were young, white and college educated. Perhaps none have been more maligned or misunderstood since. In this book, the author pushes past the contemporary fog of myth, cold disdain and warm nostalgia that shrouds the radical youth culture of the sixties. He explores how the furiously chaotic sixties sprang from the comparatively placid forties and fifties. The book digs beyond the post World War II decades and seeks the historical sources of the youth culture in the distant American past. Cavallo shows how the sixties' most radical ideas and values were deeply etched in the American soul.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Problems in Making Sense of the Sixties PART I: THE SOURCES OF FERMENT IN THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES Raising Rebels and the Cult of Security: The Ambiguous Forties and Fifties New Bottles, Old Wine: An Archeology of Rebellion PART II: THE SIXTIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY 'Free Because It's Yours': The Diggers and the San Francisco Scene, 1964-1968 Rock and Work: Another Side of Sixties Music The Politics of Autonomy and Community: Students for a Democratic Society, 1960-1965 SDS' Failed Quest for Community Epilogue: The Sixties as a Fiction of the American Past
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