| Description |
296 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
American century series |
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American century series.
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| Contents |
1. Good Times -- 2. The World as Seen from the White House 1960-1963 -- 3. The Meaning of National Culture -- 4. Freedom -- 5. The Liberal Dream and Its Nightmare -- 6. Vietnam -- 7. A Nation at War -- 8. The War Within -- 9. Stormy Weather -- 10. RN and the Politics of Deception -- 11. A New World |
| Summary |
Farber's account, based on years of research in archives and oral histories as well as in the historical literature, deals in full not only with nation building in Vietnam, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Watts riot, and the War on Poverty, but with the entertainment business, the drug culture, and much more |
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In this absorbing new book, David Farber gives us the history of our collective and individual memories of the 1960s: the brilliant colors of revolt and rapture, of flames and raised fists, of napalm and tear gas, of people desperate to make history even as others fought fiercely to stop them. More than thirty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this book grounds our understanding of the terrible events of that era by linking them to our country's grand projects of previous decades: the forging of a national system of social provision in the New Deal; our new agenda as global superpower after World War II; the creation of the national security state; and the maturation of a national consumer-driven mass-mediated marketplace |
| Analysis |
United States History,1961-1969 |
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Geschichte 1961-1969 |
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United States History 1961-1969 |
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United States History,1961-1969 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-277) and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-277) and index |
| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- 1961-1969. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140305
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| Author |
Foner, Eric, 1943-
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| LC no. |
93032266 |
| ISBN |
0809015676 |
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0809024012 |
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