The 1960s

Dudley, William, 1964- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0737703067 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0737703059 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
268 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-259) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Assessing President John F. Kennedy : image and reality / by James N. Giglio -- The triumph of Liberalism : Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society / by Frederick F. Siegel -- Earl Warren leads an activist Supreme Court / by David Chalmers -- The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis / by George Moss -- Fighting communism with the Green Berets and the Peace Corps / by David Burner -- The race to the moon / by William B. Breuer -- The Kennedy administration and Vietnam / by William H. Chafe -- Lyndon B. Johnson escalates American involvement / by Robert D. Schulzinger -- The Tet offensive transforms the American debate over Vietnam / by David W. Levy -- The antiwar movement / by David Steigerwald -- The struggle for civil rights / by Clayborne Carson -- The rise of black militancy / by Thomas R. West and James W. Mooney -- Urban riots place cities under siege / by Allen J. Matusow -- The Chicano movement / by Carlos MunÌoz Jr. -- The radical youth movement / by Norman L. Rosenberg and Emily S. Rosenberg -- The counterculture / by Timothy Miller -- Rock music and revolution / by Godfrey Hodgson -- The blacklash against social protesters / by William H. Chafe -- The sexual revolution of the 1960s / by William E. Leuchtenburg -- The feminist revival / by Jane Sherron De Hart -- Stonewall and the gay liberation movement / by Margaret Cruikshank.