Greene, John Robert, 1955-

America in the sixties [electronic resource] / John Robert Greene. - 1st ed. - Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2010. - xv, 200 p. - America in the twentieth century . - America in the twentieth century. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Comfort and crisis : the 1950s -- "The torch has been passed to a new generation" : the myths of John F. Kennedy -- "We shall overcome" : civil rights in the South, 1960-1965 -- "We'll have the opportunity to move upward" : the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson -- "As American as cherry pie" : civil rights, 1965-1969 -- "Bodies upon the gears" : the new left and the new feminism -- "Waist deep in the big muddy" : Vietnam, 1960-1967 -- "What it is ain't exactly clear" : sixties culture, straight and counter -- The limits of power : to reform the sixties.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963 --Influence.


Social movements--History--United States--20th century.
Civil rights movements--History--United States--20th century.
Feminism--History--United States--20th century.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Social aspects--United States.
Counterculture--History--United States--20th century.
Nineteen sixties.


United States--History--1961-1969.
United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.


Electronic books.

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