Perspectives on the Sixties Series – serie
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Calculating Visions
Kennedy, Johnson, and Civil Rights
Häftad, 1992
382 kr
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In June 1963, in the midst of national turmoil brought about by civil rights demonstrations, John Kennedy sent his administration's first major civil rights bill to the Congress. Still unsure about this move, he asked his brother Robert, "Do you think we did the right thing?" Within days of …
Storefront Revolution
Food Co-ops and the Counterculture
Av Craig Cox
Häftad, 1994
400 kr
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In the 1960s, the cooperative networks of food stores, restaurants, bakeries, bookstores, and housing alternatives were part counterculture, part social experiment, part economic utopia, and part revolutionary political statement. The co-ops gave activists a place where they could both express …
New Winter Soldiers
GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era
Häftad, 1996
400 kr
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Richard Moser uses interviews and personal stories of Vietnam veterans to offer a fundamentally new interpretation of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement. Although the Vietnam War was the most important conflict of recent American history, its decisive battle was not fought in the jungles of …
Other Side of the Sixties
Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics
Häftad, 1997
426 kr
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What were young conservatives doing in the 1960s while SDS and SNCC were working to move the political center to the left? The Other Side of the Sixties offers a gripping account of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), an organization that became a leading force in promoting conservative ideas and …
