The Long Sixties E-Book

Christopher B. Strain

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 405

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

The Long Sixties is a concise and engaging treatment of the major political, social, and cultural developments of this tumultuous period.

• A comprehensive yet concise overview that offers coverage of a variety of topics, from the beginnings of the Cold War shortly after World War II, through the civil rights, women's, and Chicano civil rights movements, to Watergate, an event that transpired in 1974 but capped the "Long Sixties."
• A detached and unprejudiced look at this turbulent decade, that is both lively and revelatory
• Timelines are included to help students understand how particular episodes transpired in quick succession, and how topics intertwined and overlapped
• Nicely complemented by Brian Ward's The 1960s: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), The Long Sixties book matches the documentary reader chapter-by-chapter in theme and periodization

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Preface: The Long Sixties

Acknowledgments

1 The Fifties

Further Reading

2 From New Frontier to Great Society

Further Reading

3 The Cold War

Further Reading

4 The Civil Rights Movement

Further Reading

5 The Student Rebellion

Further Reading

6 The Vietnam Quagmire

Further Reading

7 Sex, Gender, and the New Feminism

Further Reading

8 Revolutions Left and Right

Further Reading

9 Small Steps, Giant Leaps, New Concerns

Further Reading

10 Minority Empowerment

Further Reading

11 Sucking in the Seventies (or, That 70s Chapter)

Further Reading

12 Legacies

Further Reading

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

Preface

Figure 0.1 The 1960s are often misunderstood….

Figure 0.2 …and easily lampooned.

Chapter 01

Figure 1.1 A family watching television in 1958.

Figure 1.2 The ideal 1950s housewife: working, smiling, and pleasing.

Chapter 02

Figure 2.1 Sprawling housing tracts such as Lakewood Park, a suburb of Los Angeles, symbolized American prosperity.

Figure 2.2 JFK and his wife Jacqueline, pictured here in 1961, invigorated American politics.

Chapter 03

Figure 3.1 Employees at the General Dynamic Astronautics Plant in San Diego check a row of Atlas missiles in 1962.

Figure 3.2 A US Navy destroyer and seaplane shadow a Soviet submarine during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.

Chapter 04

Figure 4.1 From left to right: Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Billy Smith, and Clarence Henderson sit in for a second day at the Woolworth’s in Greensboro, 1960. In many ways their protest marked the beginning of “The Sixties”.

Figure 4.2 Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marched down Constitution Avenue during the 1963 March on Washington.

Chapter 05

Figure 5.1 Protestors pass beneath Sather Gate on the Berkeley campus in 1964.

Figure 5.2 Joan Baez performs with Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1963.

Chapter 06

Figure 6.1 Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street on June 11, 1963, to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. This photo by Malcom Browne won a Pulitzer Prize.

Figure 6.2 American infantrymen crowd into a mud-filled bomb crater and look up at tall jungle trees seeking out Viet Cong snipers firing at them during a battle in Phuoc Vinh, north-northeast of Saigon in Vietnam's War Zone D, June 15, 1967.

Figure 6.3 A candid photo of a war-weary LBJ, captured after the 1968 Tet Offensive by White House photographer Jack Kightlinger.

Chapter 07

Figure 7.1 The kind of sexism depicted in this 1960 New Yorker cartoon (whose caption reads “Makes you kind of proud to be an American, doesn’t it?”) came under increasing fire in the latter part of the decade.

Figure 7.2 Activists dump beauty products into a “Freedom Trash Can” at the 1968 Miss America contest. No bras were burned.

Chapter 08

Figure 8.1 Young people working together on a commune in Mendocino, California in July 1967.

Figure 8.2 A quiet moment on the road to Woodstock, 1969.

Figure 8.3 Cesar Chavez leading a United Farm Workers’ strike in Delano, California.

Chapter 09

Figure 9.1 A closeup of astronaut Alan Shepard in his spacesuit seated inside the Mercury capsule (April 29, 1961). He is undergoing a flight simulation test with the capsule mated to the Redstone booster.

Figure 9.2 Rachel Carson warned Americans about the dangers of progress.

Chapter 10

Figure 10.1 Black Panthers outside the New York City Courthouse in April 1969.

Figure 10.2 Native American activists change a property sign on Alcatraz Island from “US” to “Indian” on November 21, 1969.

Chapter 11

Figure 11.1 Philadelphia’s first gay pride parade, 1972.

Figure 11.2 Firing tear gas canisters, National Guardsmen advance toward Kent State University students at Taylor Hall on May 4, 1970.

Chapter 12

Figure 12.1 Nixon leaving the White House on August 9, 1974.

Figure 12.2 Ghosts of the 1960s haunted American electoral politics in the 2004 presidential campaign, as depicted in this Denver Post cartoon by Mike Keefe.

Figure 12.3 Twenty-first-century US engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq have drawn comparisons to Vietnam, as in this 2009 cartoon by John Darkow for the

Columbia

[Missouri]

Daily Tribune

.

Figure 12.4 There’s no shortage of parodies of hippies and their ideals.

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The Long Sixties

America, 1955–1973

Christopher B. Strain

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Names: Strain, Christopher B., 1970- author.Title: The long sixties: America, 1955-1973 / Christopher B. Strain.Description: Chichester, UK; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2016. | Includes index.Identifiers: LCCN 2016000144 | ISBN 9780470673621 (cloth) | ISBN 9780470673638 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781119150442 (ePub) | ISBN 9781119150411 (Adobe PDF)Subjects: LCSH: United States-History-1953-1961. | United States-History-1961-1969. | United States-Social conditions-20th century.Classification: LCC E839.S83 2016 | DDC 973.92-dc23LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016000144

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Cover image: Bill Owens Archive

Preface: The Long Sixties

The 1960s was a turbulent decade. On this much we can agree. Beyond this simple assertion, however, what happened is still hotly contested. It was a time of great change and confusion, marked by a profound shift in values and punctuated by a profane and often ugly war, but consensus breaks down on the meanings and lessons therein. For some it was a time of great liberation and freedom, an Age of Aquarius when restrictive constraints fell away. For others it was a period when the United States lost its way, a Pandora’s box that unleashed a host of social ills upon an otherwise idyllic world. For some it was heaven, others hell. For many it was both.