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9780669247770

On Our Own Americans in the Sixties

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  • ISBN13:

    9780669247770

  • ISBN10:

    0669247774

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-01-02
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning

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On Our Own offers a comprehensive narrative history of American society, culture, politics, and institutions during this remarkable decade. The volume includes the Kennedy administration, the civil-rights revolution, the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and the Movement, and then concludes with three chapters that discuss the decade's aftermath and its legacies.

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Cold War Realities, American Dreams Conflict and Containment Loyalty Under Fire ""Easy Street"" Levittown and Miltown Eisenhower Equilibrium
Disillusionment and Protest: The Midfifties The ""Silent Generation"" Speaks ""Hooby-Dooby Oop-Shoop"": Rock Rolls The Trouble with Teenagers A Howl in the Darkness: The Beats The Feminine Dilemma A Radical Awakening Black Uprising The Faces of Protest
The Kennedy Promise Little Rock and Sputnik: Crises in the Late Fifties Passing the Torch: The Election
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