America in White, Black, and gray : the stormy 1960s
No decade since the end of World War II has been as seminal in its historical significance as the 1960s. That stormy period unleashed a host of pent-up social and generational conflicts that had not been experienced since the Civil War: intense racial and ethnic strife, cold war terror, the Vietnam War, countercultural protests, controversial social engineering, and political rancor. Alongside this sweeping change, there were more disturbing legacies: erosion of discipline in schools, and the dissolution of the general polulation's trust in government. This work covers the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, student radicals, hippies and rock 'n' roll, looking how they interacted and the importance of each. -- from Publisher description
Print Book, English, 2006
Continuum International Pub. Group, New York, 2006
History
xi, 452 pages ; 24 cm
9780826418166, 0826418163
64510974
1. Introduction :
A voice from the silent generation
The way we were : before and after the 1960s
An age of protest
2. Fault lines in a land of perfection :
The myth of a perfect beginning
Immigration : more pluribus than Unum?
The flaws of consensus liberalism
Beacon or crusader : splits in American foreign policy
The racist blood-knot in American history
3. The pig in the python : a generation of vipers? :
Baby boomers and their parents
the American horn of plenty : paradox and portent
The emergence of a teenage subculture
4. John F. Kennedy and the Camelot image :
Kennedy the man and the leader : image and reality
The Kennedy administration : the best and the brightest?
Eyeball to eyeball : the world at the nuclear brink
The trauma of November 22, 1963, and its aftermath
JFK : the legacy
5. Searching for the promised land : Black civil rights :
Sit-down protests in the South
Freedom rides
Voter registration
Black nationalism
The end of the second Reconstruction
6. Liberalism at high tide under Lyndon Johnson :
A Texan in the White House
The Great Society
Liberal justice : the Warren court
From Great Society to sick society
7. Vietnam and protest :
Approaching a quagmire
Paying any price and bearing any burden
Hot Damn Vietnam : LBJ and the war
Hell no, we won't go
Nixon's war and defeat in Vietnam
The end of victory culture?
8. The crisis of 1968 : the fall of liberalism :
A speculative stampede on gold
Losing the streets : the crisis of law and order
The "dump Johnson" movement
Thunder from the right
Miami, Chicago, and the election of 1968
9. A young generation in revolt :
America awash in rebellious young people
The new left and student militancy in the 1960s
The catalyst : the free speech movement at Berkeley
From protest to "revolutionary action"
Students at war with the establishment
Radical terrorism and the conservative reaction
Black student militancy
The student right
Coda
10. Countercultural protest movements :
Was there a counterculture?
The myth of the Woodstock nation
Back to nature : the commune movement
It's the music, stupid!
Counterculture into consumer culture
11. Riding the coattails of revolt : neglected minorities :
Women's liberation
Radical feminism
Coming out of the closet : gay men
Brown power
Red power
The minority rights problem : more pluribus than Unum?
12. Peering into the historical looking glass :
Fault lines revisited
Consumer culture is boomer culture
The great cultural implosion
The end of shame and guilt
The indigestible sixties