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Title The times were a changin' : the sixties reader / edited by Irwin Unger and Debi Unger
Edition First edition
Published New York : Three Rivers Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description ix, 355 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. The Economic Miracle -- 2. The New Frontier-Great Society -- 3. The New Left -- 4. The New Right -- 5. The Civil Rights Movement -- 6. The Counterculture -- 7. The New Feminism -- 8. Judicial Activism -- 9. Foreign Affairs and Vietnam -- 10. The Antiwar Movement -- 11. The Moon Race -- 12. Election '68
Summary Balancing the controversial issues of the times with an even hand, the Ungers give equal time to William F. Buckley and Abbie Hoffman, Barry Goldwater and Hubert Humphrey, the Black Panthers and Martin Luther King, Jr., compiling an anthology that supplies rhyme and reason to a decade that never ceases to amaze us, endless in its capacity to be explored and understood
From Betty Friedan to Barry Goldwater, from the formidable presence of the Kennedy brothers to the unimaginable influence of Woodstock, Irwin Unger and journalist Debi Unger present the complexities of a volatile and tumultuous decade, while explaining how and why each significant event took place and how it shifted the country's consciousness. From the antiwar movement to the moon race, from the burgeoning counterculture to the Warren and Berger courts, and from the civil rights movement to the 1968 presidential campaign, The Times Were a Changin' will tantalize and confound readers, while inspiring and enraging them as well. The Ungers provide us with a better understanding of the strategy and maneuvering of the 1960s war games - from the Bay of Pigs to the Tet Offensive. And the pieces they have chosen help us define the current of social intolerance that plagues our country to this day
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT United States -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130 -- 1961-1963 -- Sources
United States -- History -- 1961-1969 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140305 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
United States -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140130 -- 1963-1969 -- Sources
Author Unger, Debi.
Unger, Irwin.
LC no. 98186677
ISBN 0609803379