America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960sOxford University Press, 1999 M11 18 - 368 páginas In America Divided, Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin provide the definitive history of the 1960s, in a book that tells a compelling tale filled with fresh and persuasive insights. Ranging from the 1950s right up to the debacle of Watergate, Isserman (a noted historian of the Left) and Kazin (a leading specialist in populist movements) not only recount the public and private actions of the era's many powerful political figures, but also shed light on the social, cultural, and grassroots political movements of the decade. Indeed, readers will find a seamless narrative that integrates such events as the Cuban Missile Crisis and Operation Rolling Thunder with the rise of Motown and Bob Dylan, and that blends the impact of Betty Friedan, Martin Luther King, and George Wallace with the role played by organizations ranging from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to the Campus Crusade for Christ. The authors' broad ranging approach offers us the most sophisticated understanding to date of the interaction between key developments of the decade, such as the Vietnam War, the rise and fall of the Great Society, and the conservative revival. And they break new ground in their careful attention to every aspect of the political and cultural spectrum, depicting the 1960s as a decade of right-wing resurgence as much as radical triumph, of Protestant apocalyptic revivalism as much as Roman Catholic liberalism and rising alternative religions. Never before have all sides of the many political, social, and cultural conflicts been so well defined, discussed, and analyzed--all in a swiftly moving narrative. With America Divided, the struggles of the Sixties--and their legacy--are finally clear. |
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... African American — even though New York state had passed a civil rights law in the mid - 1940s . Out West , Mexican Americans -- the nation's second largest minority-- were struggling to achieve a modicum of the economic fruits that ...
... African American — even though New York state had passed a civil rights law in the mid - 1940s . Out West , Mexican Americans -- the nation's second largest minority-- were struggling to achieve a modicum of the economic fruits that ...
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... African- American man in the twentieth century to play major league baseball . Robinson's bold defiance of racial custom , his appeal to federal author- ity , and his acquittal by that military court in 1944 all indicated that sig ...
... African- American man in the twentieth century to play major league baseball . Robinson's bold defiance of racial custom , his appeal to federal author- ity , and his acquittal by that military court in 1944 all indicated that sig ...
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... African Americans in the skilled trades and in professions like medi- cine and education shot up . Before the war , the black freedom movement was a small and fragile en- tity , repressed by southern authorities and shunned by many African ...
... African Americans in the skilled trades and in professions like medi- cine and education shot up . Before the war , the black freedom movement was a small and fragile en- tity , repressed by southern authorities and shunned by many African ...
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... American " ever feels his two - ness — an American , a Negro ; two souls ... African - American community — one in which illiterate laborers and a small ... Americans , the couple insisted , would never learn to respect themselves if ...
... American " ever feels his two - ness — an American , a Negro ; two souls ... African - American community — one in which illiterate laborers and a small ... Americans , the couple insisted , would never learn to respect themselves if ...
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... of black fam- ilies averaged only 55 percent that of white families ( and black women went out to work at higher proportions than did white women ) . Segregation re- mained the rule in most of America . After the war , African Americans ...
... of black fam- ilies averaged only 55 percent that of white families ( and black women went out to work at higher proportions than did white women ) . Segregation re- mained the rule in most of America . After the war , African Americans ...
Contenido
1 | |
7 | |
23 | |
3 The New Frontier of American Liberalism | 47 |
4 Why Did the United States Fight in Vietnam? | 67 |
5 1963 | 83 |
6 The Rise of the Great Society | 103 |
7 1965 | 127 |
Bibliographical Essay | 309 |
Notes | 315 |
Index | 345 |
B | 346 |
D | 347 |
E | 348 |
G | 349 |
I | 350 |
8 The Making of a Youth Culture | 147 |
9 The New Left | 165 |
10 The Fall of the Great Society | 187 |
11 The Conservative Revival | 205 |
12 1968 | 221 |
The 60s Reformation | 241 |
19691974 | 261 |
Winners and Losers | 293 |
Critical Events During the Long 1960s | 301 |
L | 351 |
M | 352 |
N | 353 |
O | 354 |
S | 355 |
T | 356 |
V | 357 |
Y | 358 |
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Página 3 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Página 226 - I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.
Página 149 - I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix...
Página 72 - You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly.
Página 25 - It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness, — an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
Página 91 - We preach freedom around the world, and we mean it. And we cherish our freedom here at home. But are we to say to the world — and much more importantly to each other — that this is the land of the free, except for the Negroes; that we have no second-class citizens except Negroes; that we have no class or caste system, no ghettos, no master race, except with respect to Negroes?
Página 300 - ... sake. One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for...
Página 29 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Página 30 - If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, 'There lived a great people — a black people — who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.