| Description |
xi, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Preludes -- Torgau: A Brief Moment of Sanity -- At Home: The Generation Gap -- 2. Premonitions -- On the Airwaves: Transistor Radios -- San Francisco: A Collection of Angels -- Howling at the World -- Worcester: The Pill -- The Congo: Democracy Murdered -- The Old Bailey: Lady Chatterley on Trial -- Washington: New Frontiers -- 3. Hard Rain -- Sharpeville: Apartheid Is a Way of Death -- Bay of Pigs: It Seemed Like a Good Idea -- Berlin: The Wall -- Ap Bac: Bad News from a Place Called Vietnam -- Novaya Zemlya and Cuba: Big Bombs -- 4. All Gone to Look for America -- Albany and Birmingham: Lessons of Nonviolence -- Port Huron: Students for a Democratic Society -- Washington: I Have a Dream -- Arlington National Cemetery: Kennedy and Vietnam -- 5. Call Out the Instigators -- Duxbury: Rachel Carson -- Harlem: Malcolm X -- Havana: Che -- Miami: The Greatest -- Chelsea: Mary Quant -- 6. Universal Soldiers -- The Tonkin Gulf: Carte Blanche -- Sinai: The Six-Day War -- Biafra: The Problem of Africa -- Guangxi Province: Cannibals for Mao -- 7. And in the Streets ... -- Margate: Mods versus Rockers -- Watts: Long Hot Summer -- Berkeley: Free Speech -- Amsterdam: Provo Pioneers -- Selma: Black Power -- 8. Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll -- Millbrook: Acid Dreams -- In Bed: Sex and Love -- Liverpool: The Beatles -- Manchester: The Battle for Bob Dylan -- Woodstock: A Festival, Yes; A Nation, No -- 9. Everybody Get Together -- Sharon: Young Americans for Freedom -- London: Love Is All You Need -- San Francisco: It's Free Because It's Yours! -- Greenwich Village: Yippie! -- Oakland: The Black Panthers -- Delano: Boycott Grapes -- 10. Turn, Turn, Turn -- Saigon: Tet -- Atlantic City: From Miss America to Ms. World -- Greenwich Village: Stonewall -- San Francisco: Summer of Rape -- 11. Gone to Graveyards -- Memphis: The Death of King -- Prague: Short Spring -- Los Angeles: The Death of Hope -- Mexico City: Shooting Students -- 12. You Say You Want a Revolution? -- Berlin: Rudi the Red -- New York: Up against the Wall, Motherfucker! -- Paris: Absurdists Revolt -- London: A Very British Revolution -- 13. Wilted Flowers -- The Vatican: Humanae Vitae -- Mayfair: Casualties of the Cultural Revolution -- People's Park: The Future in a Vacant Lot -- San Diego: A Burning Desire to End the War -- 14. Meet the New Boss -- Jakarta: A Perfect Little Coup -- Hollywood: Takin' Care of Business -- Los Angeles: A Goddamned Electable Person -- St. Louis: Curt Flood versus Baseball -- 15. No Direction Home -- Altamont: The Day the Music Died -- Chappaquiddick: A Career Drowned -- The Moon: Magnificent Desolation -- Greenwich Village: You Don't Need a Weatherman -- Old Bailey: Another Obscenity Trial -- Epitaph: It's Life's Illusions I Recall |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 476-492) and index |
| Subject |
History, Modern -- 1945-1989.
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Nineteen sixties.
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World politics -- 1945-1989.
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| ISBN |
1405055219 (hbk.) |
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9781405055215 (hbk.) |
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