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A compact account of the turbulent 1960s.     Terry Anderson tackles the question of why America experienced a full decade of tumult and change, the reverberations and consequences from which are still felt today.    

Table of Contents:
  Preface   Acknowledgments About the Author   Introduction: Cold War America: Seedbed of the 1960s   Won the War, Lost the Peace Searching for Subversives Ike Takes Charge Creeping Conformity Happy Days Seeds of Discontent Rebels Without a Cause Great Expectations   Chapter 1: The Years of Hope and Idealism, 1960-1963 The Torch Has Been Passed Communism Abroad Civil Rights at Home Khrushchev Prodding JFK “One Hell of a Gamble” King Diem Kennedy   Chapter 2: The Pinnacle of Liberalism, 1964-1965   The Rights Revolution Johnson Liberalism Freedom Summer Sixties Generation Tonkin Gulf and the 1964 Election Launching the Great Society LBJ Expands Civil Rights LBJ Americanizes the Vietnam War Great Society    Chapter 3:Days of Decision, 1965-1967 “A Time Bomb of Black Rage” “We’ll Lick Them” Black Power! Riots, Rebellion, and Responses My Country, Right or Wrong? Summer of Discontent Summer of Love “Vietnam Is Here”   Chapter 4: 1968 LBJ’s Decline and Fall “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” Revolution? Gene and Bobby The Silent Majority Chicago 1968 1968 Finale    Chapter 5: From Counterculture to Sixties Culture “There Must Be Some Way Out of Here” Weltanschauung Builders of the Dawn Tribal Gatherings Establishment’s Nightmare “America Will Never Be the Same Again”   Chapter 6: Days of Discord, 1969-1970 Nixon Third-World Revolutionaries and Militants Empowerment Liberation '`Enough!’ to War” Green Power Civil War   Chapter 7: The Climax and Demise of the Sixties 1970-1973 Sixties Culture Strike for Equality Nixon Vietnam: Fatal Wounds Think Global: Act Local  “Women in Revolt” Climax New Democrats versus Nixon Demise    Legacies: The Decade of Tumult and Change Politics Minorities Women Students Foreign Policy Culture   Additional Reading    

About the Author :
  Terry Anderson Terry Anderson, a Vietnam veteran, has taught in Malaysia and Japan. He was a Fulbright professor in China and the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College, Dublin. He is the author of numerous articles on the 1960s and the Vietnam War, co-author of A Flying Tiger's Diary and author of United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947; The Movement and the Sixties;  and The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action. His other most recent book is Bush's Wars, forthcoming 2011.