The Sixties

by Anderson, Terry H.

• ISBN13: 9780321011282
• ISBN10: 0321011287
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

In "The Sixties," Terry Anderson tackles the question of why American experienced a full decade of tumult and change, whose reverberations and consequences are still being felt in America today. Always appreciated for its brevity, wit and captivating style, "The Sixties" enters its third edition with expanded coverage of the most interesting and important events, people and movements of the Sixties.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction Cold War America, 1945--1960	1	(209)
Won the War, Lost the Peace	1	(3)
Searching for Subversives	4	(2)
Ike Takes Charge	6	(1)
Creeping Conformity	7	(2)
Happy Days	9	(1)
Seeds of Discontent	10	(6)
Rebels Without a Cause	16	(1)
Great Epectations	17	(2)
The Years of Hope and Idealism, 1960--1963	19	(26)
Passing the Torch	22	(4)
Communism Abroad	26	(1)
Civil Rights at Home	27	(3)
Krushchev	30	(1)
Prodding JFK	31	(2)
``One hell of a gamble,''	33	(2)
King	35	(5)
Diem	40	(1)
Kennedy	41	(4)
The Pinnacle of Liberalism, 1964--1965	45	(28)
Warren Court and the Rights Revolution	45	(3)
Johnson Liberalism	48	(3)
Freedom Summer	51	(3)
Sixties Generation	54	(4)
Tonkin Gulf and the '64 Election	58	(3)
Launching the Great Society	61	(1)
LBJ Expands Civil Rights	62	(2)
LBJ Americanizes the Vietnam War	64	(2)
Great Society	66	(7)
Days of Decision, 1965--1967	73	(29)
``A time bomb of black rage,''	73	(3)
``We'll lick them,''	76	(6)
Black Power!	82	(3)
Riots and Responses	85	(2)
My Country, Right or Wrong?	87	(5)
Summer of Discontent	92	(3)
Summer of Love	95	(3)
``Vietnam is here,''	98	(4)
1968	102	(27)
LBJ's Decline and Fall	105	(3)
``I've been to the mountaintop,''	108	(2)
Revolution?	110	(4)
Gene and Bobby	114	(2)
Silent Majority, Wallace, and the New Nixon	116	(3)
Chicago '68	119	(5)
'68 Finale	124	(5)
From Counterculture to Sixties Culture	129	(24)
``There must be some way out of here,''	131	(4)
Values	135	(5)
Social Thought	140	(3)
Builders of the Dawn	143	(2)
Tribal Gatherings	145	(2)
The Empire Strikes Back	147	(2)
``America will never be the same again,''	149	(4)
Days of Discord, 1969--1970	153	(28)
Nixon	154	(5)
Third World Revolutionaries and Militants	159	(4)
Empowerment	163	(4)
Liberation	167	(5)
``Enough!' to War,''	172	(3)
Green Power	175	(2)
Civil War	177	(4)
The Crescendo, and Demise of the Sixties, 1970--1973	181	(29)
Sixties Culture	181	(1)
Strike for Equality	182	(2)
Nixon	184	(2)
Vietnam: Fatal Wounds	186	(6)
Think Global: Act Local	192	(2)
``Women in Revolt,''	194	(2)
Crescendo	196	(3)
New Democrats Versus Nixon	199	(7)
Demise	206	(4)
Legacies The Decade of Tumult and Change	210	(13)
Politics	210	(3)
Minorities	213	(3)
Women	216	(2)
Students	218	(1)
Foreign Policy	218	(2)
Culture	220	(3)
Additional Reading	223	(6)
Kennedy Years	223	(1)
LBJ	223	(1)
Warren Court	224	(1)
Civil Rights	224	(1)
Vietnam	225	(1)
Protest, Youth and Counterculture	226	(1)
Women's Liberation	227	(1)
Chicanos and Native Americans	227	(1)
Nixon	227	(2)
Photo Acknowledgments	229	(2)
Index	231