| Description |
xviii, 442 pages, xxvi ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Prologue : Eisenhower's year -- Profile : the Supreme Court -- 2. Building Camelot -- Profile : space -- 3. Completing the myth -- Profile : the Warren Report and after -- 4. Johnson in power -- Profile : Ralph Nader -- 5. The desperate years being -- Profile : the city -- 6. From civil rights to black power -- Profile : women's liberation -- 7. Two cultures -- Profile : sports -- 8. The counter-culture -- Profile : Hell's Angels -- 9. The new left comes and goes -- Profile : religion -- 10. To Tet and back -- Profile : organized medicine -- 11. 1968 : the hard year -- Profile : Cesar Chavez -- 12. Epilogue : the revolution is over |
| Summary |
"William O'Neill's masterly chronicle of the twentieth century's most confounding decade is a book that combines wit with learning and seriousness with entertainment. Its emphasis is inevitably on politics, but it offers a brilliant yet balanced portrayal of the New Left, the counterculture, the civil rights movement, the plunge into Vietnam, the crisis in the universities, and the freakier aspects of the popular culture."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Originally published: Chicago : Quadrangle Books, 1971 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-442) and index |
| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- 1961-1969. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140305
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140467
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| LC no. |
2004052731 |
| ISBN |
1566636132 paperback acid-free paper |
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