| Description |
xvi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. The era of consensus, 1954-63 -- 1. The consensus -- 2. The cultural Cold War -- 3. Cracks in the consensus -- 4. The new generation -- 5. The Cold War on the new frontier -- 6. The second Civil War -- Pt. 2. The sixties, 1964-68 -- 7. 1964 : welcome to the 1960s -- 8. Teach-in, strike out : the uncivil wars heat up -- 9. The great freak forward -- 10. A very bad year begins -- 11. A bad year gets worse : the domestic war front -- Pt. 3. The rise of essentialist politics and the fall of Richard Nixon, 1969-74 -- 12. The rise of gender and identity politics -- 13. Identities of race and ethnicity -- 14. Taking on the system -- 15. The uncivil wars : Woodstock to Kent State -- 16. Watergate : the last battle -- Epilogue : who won? |
| Summary |
"Here is a panoramic history of America from 1954 to 1973, ranging from the buoyant teenage rebellion first captured by rock and roll, to the drawn-out and dispiriting endgame of Watergate." "In America's Uncivil Wars, Mark Hamilton Lytle illuminates the great social, cultural, and political upheavals of the era. He begins his chronicle surprisingly early, in the late '50s and early '6Os, when A-bomb protests and books ranging from Catcher in the Rye to Silent Spring and The Feminine Mystique challenged attitudes towards sexuality and the military-industrial complex. As baby boomers went off to college, drug use increased, women won more social freedom, and the widespread availability of birth control pills eased inhibitions against premarital sex. Lytle describes how in 1967 these isolated trends began to merge into the mainstream of American life. The counterculture spread across the nation, Black Power dominated the struggle for racial equality, and political activists mobilized vast numbers of dissidents against the war. It all came to a head in 1968, with the deepening morass of the war, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., race riots, widespread campus unrest, the violence at the Democratic convention in Chicago, and the election of Richard Nixon. By then, not only did Americans divide over race, class, and gender, but also over matters as simple as the length of a boy's hair or of a girl's skirt. Only in the aftermath of Watergate did the uncivil wars finally crawl to an end, leaving in their wake a new elite that better reflected the nation's social and cultural diversity."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 380-392) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Nineteen sixties.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- 1953-1961. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140304
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United States -- History -- 1961-1969. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140305
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United States -- History -- 1969- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140306
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140520
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
2004063585 |
| ISBN |
9780195174960 acidfree paper |
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9780195174977 paperback acidfree paper |
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0195174968 acid-free paper |
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0195174976 paperback acid-free paper |
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