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Long time gone : sixties America then and now /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bloom, Alexander
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Colección:Viewpoints on American culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sixties timeline
  • Introduction : Why read about the 1960s at the turn of the twenty-first century?
  • The movement we helped to make / Julian Bond
  • "Of this generation" : the New Left and the student movement / Wini Breines
  • Vietnam War mythology and the rise of public cynicism / Cristian Appy, Alexander Bloom
  • Running battle : Washington's war at home / Tom Wells
  • Lyndon Johnson and the roots of contemporary conservatism / Tom Wicker
  • Negroes no more : the emergence of black student activism / Karen K. Miller
  • Everything seemed beautiful : a life in the counterculture / Barry Melton
  • Politics as art, art as politics : the Freedom Singers, the Living Theatre, and public performance / Bradford Martin
  • Sources of the second wave : the rebirth of feminism / Sara M. Evans
  • Placing gay in the sixties / John D'Emilio.