America in the Sixties--Right, Left, and Center
Subtitle: A Documentary History
Publisher: Praeger Paperback; Praeger
Published: December 30, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780275955168
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Social history; c 1960 to c 1970; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; Political History; United States - 20th Century; United States - 20th Century/60s; History / United States / 20th Century
First sentence: The documents in this chapter, culled from the late 1950s and the early 1960s, introduce several of the main themes of the post-World War II era: economic prosperity and optimism, the cold war and the fear of communism it bred, and the emergence of struggles for racial and sexual equality.