And the Crooked Places Made Straight: The Struggle for Social Change in the 1960s (second edition, updated) (The American Moment)

Synopsis

Updated and revised, this is the best short interpretive history of the U.S. in the 1960s.David Chalmers's widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a growing challenge to traditional values and arrangements. Chalmers recounts the judicial revolution that set national standards for race, politics, policing, and privacy. He examines the long, losing war on poverty and the struggle between the media and the government over the war in Vietnam. He follows feminism's "second wave" and the emergence of the environmental, consumer, and citizen action movements. He also explores the worlds of rock, sex, and drugs, and the entwining of the youth culture, the counterculture, and the American marketplace.This newly revised edition covers the conservative counter-revolution and cultural wars. It carries the legacy of the 1960s forward: from Tom Hayden’s idealistic 1962 Port Huron Statement through Newt Gingrich’s 1994 "Contract with America" and Grover Norquist’s twenty-first century "Tax Payer’s Protection Pledge."

Copyright:

2013

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

232 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781421408217

Related ISBNs:

9781421408224

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Date of Addition:

02/10/22

Copyrighted By:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government

Grade Levels:

College Freshman, College Sophomore, College Junior, College Senior, Graduate Student, Undergraduate Student

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Bookshare Staff

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