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Loading... The Shattering: America in the 1960sby Kevin Boyle
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I lived through it and this very well researched investigation of the many, many news worthy items that happened in the 60s was very well done and brought back memories of some very difficult times in our history: segregation and desegregation, protest marches for equality for black Americans, the assassinations of JFK, MLK and Robert F. Kennedy, Viet Nam, Cambodia, the anti-war protests, Roe, and all the bigger than life personalities including Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy, George Wallace and the Supreme Court. The Kent State killings in 1969 and the downfall of Nixon with the Watergate hearings in the early 70s brought the book to an American end. Very comprehensive and excellent narration. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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"From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade that exploded America's postwar order. On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, rioting, and the blowback of a "silent majority" mobilized by an emerging right, left a fragmented political landscape. Kevin Boyle's full-dimensioned history of the decade is authoritative and engrossing. The civil rights movement emerges from the grassroots activism of Montgomery, through the tragic violence of Birmingham, to the frustrations of King's Chicago campaign and a rising Black nationalism. The Vietnam war unfolds as misguided policy, high-stakes politics, and searing in-country experience. Women's challenges of gender norms yield landmark decisions on privacy rights, contraception, and abortion. With empathy its keynote, this definitive history of the 1960s recovers the humanity behind the decade's divisions"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.923History and Geography North America United States 1901- Eisenhower Through Clinton Administrations Lyndon JohnsonLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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