num_pages: 176
description: No other decade of the 20th century has acquired the mythological status of the 1960s. For the United States this was the decade of the Camelot presidency of John F. Kennedy and the ruined presidency of Lyndon Johnson, of the great civil rights March on Washington and the assassination of Martin Luther King. The 1960s were central to the great transformation which American society underwent in the half-century after 1945 and the strains associated with this largely explain the turbulence of these years. This period was a watershed in twentieth-century American history and the roots of contemporary America are to be found in this decade. Focusing on the public affairs of America, Michael Heale introduces the reader to the major changes which governed life in the sixties.
language: English
title: The Sixties in America: History, Politics, and Protest
titlecomplete: The Sixties in America: History, Politics, and Protest
ratings_count: 2
series: British Association for American Studies Paperbacks
publisher: Edinburgh University Press