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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820213603321

Autore

Greene John Robert <1955->

Titolo

America in the sixties / / John Robert Greene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Syracuse, N.Y., : Syracuse University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8156-5133-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

America in the twentieth century

Disciplina

973.92

Soggetti

Social movements - United States - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

Feminism - United States - History - 20th century

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Social aspects - United States

Counterculture - United States - History - 20th century

Nineteen sixties

United States History 1961-1969

United States Social conditions 1960-1980

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Comfort and crisis : the 1950s -- "The torch has been passed to a new generation" : the myths of John F. Kennedy -- "We shall overcome" : civil rights in the South, 1960-1965 -- "We'll have the opportunity to move upward" : the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson -- "As American as cherry pie" : civil rights, 1965-1969 -- "Bodies upon the gears" : the new left and the new feminism -- "Waist deep in the big muddy" : Vietnam, 1960-1967 -- "What it is ain't exactly clear" : sixties culture, straight and counter -- The limits of power : to reform the sixties.