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ISBN-10: 0205840124

ISBN-13: 9780205840120

Edition: 4th 2012

Authors: Terry H. Anderson

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&aA 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. Note:MySearchLabdoes not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchaseMySearchLabat no extra charge, please visitwww.MySearchLab.comor use ISBN: 9780205840120.
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Book details

List price: $91.07
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 5/30/2012
Binding: Mixed Media
Pages: 240
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Terry AndersonTerry 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.

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
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
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
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"
1968
LBJ's Decline and Fall
"I've Been to the Mountaintop"
Revolution?
Gene and Bobby
The Silent Majority
Chicago 1968
1968 Finale
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"
Days of Discord, 1969-1970
Nixon
Third-World Revolutionaries and Militants
Empowerment
Liberation
''Enough!' to War"
Green Power
Civil War
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
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