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Sandwiched between your placid fifties and the flamboyant seventies, the sixties, ten years of tumultuous change and stunning paradoxes, is often reduced to a series of slogans, symbols, and mass media images. In America in the Sixties, Greene runs beyond the cliches and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. Greene sketches the well-known players of the time - John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Betty Friedan-bringing each alive with subtle information. He presents the audience to lesser-known occurrences of the ten years and will be offering fresh and persuasive insights on many of its watershed incidents. Greene argues that the civil rights movement commenced in 1955 following the loss of life of Emmett Right up until; that many achievements acknowledged to Kennedy were centered upon misconception, not historical fact, and this his presidency was far from successful; that all of the movements of the period-civil rights, students, antiwar, cultural nationalism-were started out by young intellectuals and finally influenced to failure by activists who had different goals in mind; and that the "counterculture", which has been glorified in the current mass media as a strap of rock-singing hippies, had its roots in some of the most provocative social thinking about the postwar period. Greene chronicles the ten years in a thematic manner, devoting individual chapters to such subjects as the legacy of the fifties, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, the civil rights movements, and the war in Vietnam. Merging an engrossing narrative with intelligent research, America in the Sixties enriches our understanding of that pivotal era. The book is posted by Syracuse College or university Press.
