Covering a period in which the American Dream faced challenges from home as well as abroad, this volume records the conflicts over race, sex and war that emerged throughout the 1960s. As he explores topics including the civil rights movement, Vietnam and demands for changes in legislation related to sexuality, Kevin Boyle tells the stories of ordinary people as well as prominent figures to build a picture of a decade whose legacy continues to the present. Slightly off-mint and felt-tip mark on upper or lower trimmed edge.
On 4 July 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighbourhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, rioting and the blowback of a "silent majority" mobilised by an emerging right, left a fragmented political landscape.
Kevin Boyle's full-dimensioned history of the decade is authoritative and engrossing. The civil rights movement emerges from the grassroots activism of Montgomery, through the tragic violence of Birmingham, to the frustrations of King's Chicago campaign and a rising Black nationalism. The Vietnam war unfolds as misguided policy, high-stakes politics and searing in-country experience. Women's challenges of gender norms yield landmark decisions on privacy rights, contraception and abortion.
With empathy its keynote, this definitive history of the 1960s recovers the humanity behind the decade's divisions.
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