America's Uncivil Wars The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon

by Lytle, Mark Hamilton

• ISBN13: 9780195174960
• ISBN10: 0195174968
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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 dispriting endgame of Watergate.

Author Biography

Mark Hamilton Lytle is a Professor of History and Director of the Historical Studies Program and is Codirector of the American Studies Program at Bard College. He is the coauthor of After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection and Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
PART ONE The Era of Consensus, 1954--63
The Consensus	13	(13)
The Cultural Cold War	26	(18)
Cracks in the Consensus	44	(28)
The New Generation	72	(24)
The Cold War on the New Frontier	96	(20)
The Second Civil War	116	(27)
PART TWO The Sixties, 1964--68
1964: Welcome to the 1960s	143	(31)
Teach-in, Strike Out: The Uncivil Wars Heat Up	174	(20)
The Great Freak Forward	194	(23)
A Very Bad Year Begins	217	(23)
A Bad Year Gets Worse: The Domestic War Front	240	(29)
PART THREE The Rise of Essentialist Politics and the Fall of Richard Nixon, 1969--74
The Rise of Gender and Identity Politics	269	(20)
Identities of Race and Ethnicity	289	(27)
Taking on the System	316	(18)
The Uncivil Wars: Woodstock to Kent State	334	(23)
Watergate: The Last Battle	357	(18)
Epilogue Who Won?	375	(5)
Notes on Sources	380	(13)
Index	393