On Our Own: Americans in the Sixties
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (689 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0669247774 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
On Our Own offers a comprehensive narrative history of American society, culture, politics, and institutions during this remarkable decade. The volume includes the Kennedy administration, the civil-rights revolution, the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and the Movement, and then concludes with three chapters that discuss the decade's aftermath and its legacies.
1968 Tet Eugene McCarthy and the Children's Crusade RFK and LBJ The Death of a King New York and Paris Los Angeles and Chicago R N 9. Cold War Realities, American Dreams Conflict and Containment Loyalty Under Fire "Easy Street" Levittown and Miltown Eisenhower Equilibrium 2. 1. The Kennedy Promise Little Rock and Sputnik: Crises in the Late Fifties Passing the Torch: The Election of 1960 Cautious Liberalism: The New Frontier at Home Containing Communism: The New Frontier Abroad November 22, 1963 4. Vietnam and American Society, 1945-1967 The Kennedy Inheritance The Alamo Revisited: Johnson and Vietnam "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" Lyndon's War Vietnam at Home 7. The Movement "The Times They Are A-Changin'" The New Left Ascen
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