Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties

Name: Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties
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ISBN: 9780521543835

ISBN-10: 0521543835

ISBN-13: 9780521543835

Edition: 2004

Authors: W. J. Rorabaugh

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This book explores life in America during that brief promising period in the early sixties when John F. Kennedy was the U.S. president. Kennedy's optimism and charm helped to give promise to the times. At the same time, Cold War frustrations in Cuba and Vietnam worried Americans, while the 1962 Missile Crisis narrowly avoided a nuclear disaster. Early in the decade, the Civil Rights movement gained momentum through student sit-ins and Freedom Rides. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerged as a powerful spokesman for non-violent social change and gave his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington in 1963. The Civil Rights movement proved to be the seedbed for many other movements…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.74" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

W. J. Rorabaugh teaches history at the University of Washington in Seattle.



Introduction



Kennedy



The cold war



Civil rights



Families



Cosmologies



Dallas


Conclusion