The Decade That Divides Us: America in the 1960s
Autor Leonard Steinhornen Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 mar 2027
The 1960s was a decade when Americans were whipsawed by the duelling emotions of violence and hope, resistance and change, idealism and despair, liberation and assassination, promise and grief. It is a decade whose images remain vivid and compelling to this day: peace marches, hippies, body bags, Freedom Summer, Woodstock, napalm, Black Power, November 22, and Martin Luther King evoking our nation’s most powerful ideals. The Decade That Divides Us journeys through these years of turbulence and change – and demonstrates how these conflicts continue to reverberate in our culture and politics today.
For students, historians, journalists, and anyone trying to make sense of the present, this book illuminates an essential truth: to understand America now, we must understand the Sixties.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032755236
ISBN-10: 1032755237
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032755237
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate CoreCuprins
Prologue, 1: Prelude to the Sixties: America in the 1950s, 2: 1,036 Days: JFK and The Camelot Presidency, 3: “The fierce urgency of now”: The Civil Rights Movement of the Early Sixties, 4: There’s Something Happening Here: A New Generation Takes on the Status Quo, 5: The Great Society: Triumphant Liberalism and Its Discontents, 6: Vietnam: The War Abroad, 7: Vietnam: The War At Home, 8: Peace, Love, Happiness & Resistance: The Generations at Odds, 9: 1968: The Year America Came Apart, 10: Richard Nixon and the Rise of the Silent Majority, 11: The Personal is Political: Women’s Liberation in the 1960s, 12: Liberation Movements of the Late 1960s, 13: The Sixties Are Dead, Long Live the Sixties
Notă biografică
Leonard Steinhorn is professor emeritus at American University, USA, a former CBS News Radio political analyst, and a leading authority on the 1960s. He is the author of The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy (2006) and coauthor of By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and The Reality of Race (1999).
Recenzii
"More than just a superb work of social and political history, Leonard Steinhorn’s The Decade That Divides Us: America in the 1960s is a gripping, fast-paced triumph of nonfiction storytelling. These pages, rich in sometimes shocking facts and anecdotes, trace John F. Kennedy’s carefully orchestrated rise to the presidency, the inspiring grandeur and tragedies of the civil rights movement, the growing moral opposition to the Vietnam War, and the under-recognized alienation of the white working class. Other pages recreate the context and impact of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, student protests on and off campus, women's liberation, Woodstock and Altamont, the Black Panthers, the Watts uprising, gay rights activism, psychedelic drugs, the Summer of Love and the shootings at Kent State. Above all, Steinhorn allows his narrative to show, again and again, that the promise and prejudices of the 1960s still inform the America of today. For anyone who lived through that tumultuous decade, reading this masterly work of analysis and synthesis will also be an emotional experience, eliciting memories, tears, and thoughts that lie too deep for tears."
Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and former book columnist for The Washington Post.
"Just when you think that all that can be written about the 1960s has been written comes Leonard Steinhorn’s fascinating The Decade that Divides Us. A startlingly original meditation on the decade that changed American history forever. A brilliant book."
Robert Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, Vassar College
"Professor Steinhorn’s social history of the 1960s is as compelling as it is engaging. The narrative is sweeping, provocative, and demonstrates how the turbulent decade reverberates still in American life."
W. Joseph Campbell, author of 1995: The Year the Future Began.
"The Decade That Divides Us examines the decade of the 1960s and illuminates the defining role those eventful years played in shaping American culture and its global and lasting influence. Through keen eyes and insightful yet easygoing prose, Steinhorn entices us to see who we were as a nation in the 1950s and then illuminates the events and figures that defined the 1960s. This is a must read for anyone curious about our national identity and how it has been especially shaped by the 1960s. It provides a useful window into the persistent divides and the enmity that rumbles beneath the surface from coast to coast like a slowly emerging earthquake.Steinhorn leads us through the post-World War 2 marvel of Levittown and economic growth and on to church burnings and bombings, antiwar protests and so much more. While many boomers have fond memories of their childhood years, they were in times and places where awful things happened, and we drifted through the good times while around us things were falling apart. A comfortable pace is set by the author, assuring us that the most important aspects of the story of the 1960s will be told, and what a story there is to tell – the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, all within a short span of time. Gender rights, abortion rights, campus protests, antiwar demonstrations and urban riots play out over a backdrop of rock and roll and folk music. Years later, there is a timeless quality to looking into this mirror of the 1960s and seeing the complexity of who we were and are now."
Jennifer Lawson, former PBS programming executive and veteran of the civil rights movement
"Leonard Steinhorn’s The Decade That Divides Us is a book that meets the moment by explaining how we got here. The mystery of how a country that elected Barack Obama and then elevated Donald Trump is not the whodunnit we think it is. As Steinhorn shows, you can’t come to terms with today’s politics without understanding how the Sixties changed us — by advancing our nation's long march toward greater rights and freedoms, but also fueling the illiberal backlash against it. Through vibrant storytelling that makes familiar events vivid, The Decade That Divides Us makes one thing clear: the Sixties are more relevant than ever."
Rick Shenkman, founder of the History News Network, is the author of Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics.
"Arguments about the lessons of the 1960s have never ended, and never will. But Leonard Steinhorn’s book gets its arms all the way around the decade that was, never lets go, and I pined for more. The Decade That Divides Us is so meticulous, so comprehensive, so accurate. It brims with insights into Vietnam, civil rights, and the counterculture. It also places the 1960s persuasively as the outgrowth of the 1950s—and the precursor of the 1970s and beyond. Daddy may have tried to take T-Birds away, but he can’t take anything away from this exceptional volume. A must for any bookshelf."
Bob Levey, retired Washington Post columnist who covered antiwar demonstrations, campus upheavals, and social trends during the 1960s.
Michael Dirda, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and former book columnist for The Washington Post.
"Just when you think that all that can be written about the 1960s has been written comes Leonard Steinhorn’s fascinating The Decade that Divides Us. A startlingly original meditation on the decade that changed American history forever. A brilliant book."
Robert Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of History and International Relations, Vassar College
"Professor Steinhorn’s social history of the 1960s is as compelling as it is engaging. The narrative is sweeping, provocative, and demonstrates how the turbulent decade reverberates still in American life."
W. Joseph Campbell, author of 1995: The Year the Future Began.
"The Decade That Divides Us examines the decade of the 1960s and illuminates the defining role those eventful years played in shaping American culture and its global and lasting influence. Through keen eyes and insightful yet easygoing prose, Steinhorn entices us to see who we were as a nation in the 1950s and then illuminates the events and figures that defined the 1960s. This is a must read for anyone curious about our national identity and how it has been especially shaped by the 1960s. It provides a useful window into the persistent divides and the enmity that rumbles beneath the surface from coast to coast like a slowly emerging earthquake.Steinhorn leads us through the post-World War 2 marvel of Levittown and economic growth and on to church burnings and bombings, antiwar protests and so much more. While many boomers have fond memories of their childhood years, they were in times and places where awful things happened, and we drifted through the good times while around us things were falling apart. A comfortable pace is set by the author, assuring us that the most important aspects of the story of the 1960s will be told, and what a story there is to tell – the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, all within a short span of time. Gender rights, abortion rights, campus protests, antiwar demonstrations and urban riots play out over a backdrop of rock and roll and folk music. Years later, there is a timeless quality to looking into this mirror of the 1960s and seeing the complexity of who we were and are now."
Jennifer Lawson, former PBS programming executive and veteran of the civil rights movement
"Leonard Steinhorn’s The Decade That Divides Us is a book that meets the moment by explaining how we got here. The mystery of how a country that elected Barack Obama and then elevated Donald Trump is not the whodunnit we think it is. As Steinhorn shows, you can’t come to terms with today’s politics without understanding how the Sixties changed us — by advancing our nation's long march toward greater rights and freedoms, but also fueling the illiberal backlash against it. Through vibrant storytelling that makes familiar events vivid, The Decade That Divides Us makes one thing clear: the Sixties are more relevant than ever."
Rick Shenkman, founder of the History News Network, is the author of Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics.
"Arguments about the lessons of the 1960s have never ended, and never will. But Leonard Steinhorn’s book gets its arms all the way around the decade that was, never lets go, and I pined for more. The Decade That Divides Us is so meticulous, so comprehensive, so accurate. It brims with insights into Vietnam, civil rights, and the counterculture. It also places the 1960s persuasively as the outgrowth of the 1950s—and the precursor of the 1970s and beyond. Daddy may have tried to take T-Birds away, but he can’t take anything away from this exceptional volume. A must for any bookshelf."
Bob Levey, retired Washington Post columnist who covered antiwar demonstrations, campus upheavals, and social trends during the 1960s.
Descriere
From Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and rock ‘n’ roll to the sexual revolution, feminism, campus unrest, and the “silent majority” backlash, this book demonstrates how the culture wars and political battles of the 1960s shaped America today.