num_pages: 240
description: In The Sixties, Terry Anderson tackles the question of why American experienced a full decade of tumult &amp; change, whose reverberations &amp; consequences are still being felt in America today. Always appreciated for its brevity, wit &amp; captivating style, The Sixties enters its 3rd edition with expanded coverage of the most interesting &amp; important events, people &amp; movements of the Sixties. "Anderson defines the 1960s' movement as a loose, ever-shifting coalition of social activists including civil rights &amp; Vietnam War protesters, feminists, students, ecologists &amp; hippies. In his analysis, the movement was generally leaderless &amp; was not defined by new-left philosophy; rather, its members were motivated by the old-fashioned American pragmatism that drove protesters during other reform eras--the Revolution, Jacksonian democracy, the populist &amp; progressive era &amp; the New Deal. Far from being a failure, as critics contend, the movement, in Anderson's estimate, cracked a rigid Cold War culture, forced campus &amp; educational reform, sped the passage of civil rights legislation, revolutionized the status of women &amp; influenced mainstream politics, which coopted many of its ideas about citizen &amp; community empowerment. Professor of history at Texas A&amp;M University, Anderson draws heavily on interviews, underground newspapers, leaflets &amp; participants' memoirs to create a vivid newsreel. His sweeping study is a valuable, refreshingly unbiased reassessment of the '60s legacy."--Publishers Weekly
language: English
title: The Sixties
titlecomplete: The Sixties
genres: History, School, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 91
publisher: Pearson Higher Education