CiNii Books - The long sixties : from 1960 to Barack Obama

In this unique and compelling book Tom Hayden argues that Barack Obama would not have been able to mount a successful presidential campaign without the movements of the 1960s. The Long Sixties shows that movements throughout history triumph over Machiavellians, gaining social reforms while leaving both revolutionaries and reactionaries frustrated. Hayden argues that the 1960s left a critical imprint on America, from civil rights laws to the birth of the environmental movement, and forced open the political process to women and people of colour. He urges President Obama to continue this legacy with a popular programme of economic recovery, green jobs and health care reform. The Long Sixties is a carefully researched history which will be of interest to activists, journalists and historians as the fiftieth anniversary of the 1960s begins.

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Part I The First Sixties, 1955-1965
Introduction
Chapter 1 Dawn
Chapter 2 The Port Huron Vision of SDS
Chapter 3 New Left versus New Frontier
Chapter 4 From the Washington March to the Assassination of JFK
Chapter 5 The Mississippi Freedom Democrats' Challenge
Chapter 6 The Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 1964-1965
Chapter 7 The Counterculture, 1964-1965
Part II The Second Sixties, 1965-1975
Chapter 8 America Invading Vietnam, Vietnam Invading America
Chapter 9 Toppling the Ivory Tower: The Student Strikes at Columbia and San Francisco State, 1968-1969
Chapter 10 The Chicago Conspiracy
Chapter 11 Cambodia, Yale, and Kent State
Chapter 12 The Watergate Coup and the Antiwar Movement
Chapter 13 Wounded Knee and the End of the Sixties
Part III The Sixties at Fifty
Chapter 14 Che Guevara and the Sixties
Chapter 15 The Underground in America
Chapter 16 The Old Revolutionaries of Vietnam
Chapter 17 Peace in Northern Ireland
Chapter 18 From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime
Chapter 19 Liberation Theology
Chapter 20 Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Black Liberation Theology
Chapter 21 The Spirituality of the Counterculture
Part IV The Sixties in the Obama Era
Chapter 22 A Call to Progressives for Obama with Barbara Ehrenreich and Bill Fletcher Jr. (March 10, 2008)
Chapter 23 Dreaming Obama in North Carolina: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Chapter 24 Bobby and Barack
Chapter 25 Barack Obama between Movements and MachiavellianspartV A Sixties Timeline

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