Tales for the Son of My Unborn Child
Author | : Thomas Farber |
Publisher | : Dutton Adult |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas Farber |
Publisher | : Dutton Adult |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Farber |
Publisher | : Dutton Adult |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Burner |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2021-07-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400847753 |
David Burner's panoramic history of the 1960s conveys the ferocity of debate and the testing of visionary hopes that still require us to make sense of the decade. He begins with the civil rights and black power movements and then turns to nuanced descriptions of Kennedy and the Cold War, the counterculture and its antecedents in the Beat Generation, the student rebellion, the poverty wars, and the liberals' war in Vietnam. As he considers each topic, Burner advances a provocative argument about how liberalism self-destructed in the 1960s. In his view, the civil rights movement took a wrong turn as it gradually came to emphasize the identity politics of race and ethnicity at the expense of the vastly more important politics of class and distribution of wealth. The expansion of the Vietnam War did force radicals to confront the most terrible mistake of American liberalism, but that they also turned against the social goals of the New Deal was destructive to all concerned. Liberals seemed to rule in politics and in the media, Burner points out, yet they failed to make adequate use of their power to advance the purposes that both liberalism and the left endorsed. And forces for social amelioration splintered into pairs of enemies, such as integrationists and black separatists, the social left and mainline liberalism, and advocates of peace and supporters of a totalitarian Hanoi. Making Peace with the 60s will fascinate baby boomers and their elders, who either joined, denounced, or tried to ignore the counterculture. It will also inform a broad audience of younger people about the famous political and literary figures of the time, the salient moments, and, above all, the powerful ideas that spawned events from the civil rights era to the Vietnam War. Finally, it will help to explain why Americans failed to make full use of the energies unleashed by one of the most remarkable decades of our history.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
Publisher | : Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Total Pages | : 1040 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Copyright |
ISBN | : |
Author | : W.J. Rorabaugh Professor of History University of Washington |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 1989-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198022522 |
Berkeley, California, was the bellwether of the political, social, and cultural upheaval that made the 1960s a unique period of American history--a time when the top-down methods of a conservative establishment collided head-on with the bottom-up, grass-roots ethos of the civil rights movement and an increasingly well-educated and individualistic middle class. W.J. Rorabaugh, who attended the graduate school of the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1970s, presents a lively and informative account of the events that overtook and changed forever what had once been a quiet, conservative white suburb. The rise of the Free Speech Movement, which gave a voice to disfranchised students; the growth and increasing militance of a black community struggling to end segregation; the emergence of radicalism and the anti-war movement; the blossoming of "hippie" culture, with its scorn for materialism and enthusiasm for experimentation with everything from sex and drugs to Eastern philosophies; the beginnings of modern-day feminism and environmentalism--and how all of these coalesced in the explosive conflict over People's Park--are traced in a meticulously researched and authoritative narrative. At issue was the question of power, and the struggle between the establishment and the powerless led to developments that the advocates of a freer society could scarcely have foreseen: Ronald Reagan, elected governor of California in reaction to the events at Berkeley, and Edwin H. Meese III, who battled against the student movement and People's Park, rose to national power in the 1980s (without, however, gaining any popularity in Berkeley, where Walter Mondale won 83 percent of the vote in 1984). An invaluable account of its time and place, this book anchors the '60s in American history, both before and since that colorful decade.
Author | : Anthony Ashbolt |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 131732188X |
The San Francisco Bay Area was a meeting point for radical politics and counterculture in the 1960s. Until now there has been little understanding of what made political culture here unique. This work explores the development of a regional culture of radicalism in the Bay Area, one that underpinned both political protest and the counterculture.
Author | : Todd Gitlin |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 1993-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0553372122 |
Say “the Sixties” and the images start coming, images of a time when all authority was defied and millions of young Americans thought they could change the world—either through music, drugs, and universal love or by “putting their bodies on the line” against injustice and war. Todd Gitlin, the highly regarded writer, media critic, and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has written an authoritative and compelling account of this supercharged decade—a decade he helped shape as an early president of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and an organizer of the first national demonstration against the Vietnam war. Part critical history, part personal memoir, part celebration, and part meditation, this critically acclaimed work resurrects a generation on all its glory and tragedy.
Author | : Steven Gilbar |
Publisher | : Random House Value Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George H. Junne |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 2000-05-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0313065055 |
Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just now beginning to receive systematic scholarly treatment. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history. Entries are organized both geographically and topically, and cover a broad range of subjects including cross-cultural interaction, health, art, and law. Contains a complete compilation of African-American newspapers.
Author | : Klaus Mehnert |
Publisher | : Holt McDougal |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
The 1960s was the decade of social and political rebellion by the young. Ho Chi Mihn and Che Guevara were canonized, and undergraduates in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, and Tokyo quoted Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. The demonstrations for the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the Port Huron Statement, and the student riots in Berlin were followed by the outbreaks in Paris of May 1968, the confrontations at the Democratic Convention in Chicago, and the violence of the Weathermen. This text examines the common strands linking such diverse events and widespread phenomena as the Beat poets, the Rock and drug culture of the 1960s, the underground press in Russia, the Prague Spring, and the Tupamaro guerillas.