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The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States
by David Paul Haney  Synopsis < div> In this, a unique history of the America's postwar intellectual, David Paul Haney outlines the developoment of sociology as a discipline and why, given its focus of study, it failed to develop into a force in the intellectual currents of the...
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Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s, and Why They Came Back
by Eleanor Agnew Synopsis When Eleanor Agnew and her family moved to the Maine woods in 1975, visionaries by the millions were moving back tot he land in order to disconnect from the supposedly deleterious influences of modern life. This is their story, in all its glories and...
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The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy
by Leonard Steinhorn Publisher Comments The Greatest Generation gets credit for winning World War II and braving the Depression. But the Baby Boomers? All they get credit for is knowing how to order a tall skim double latte. What really is the true legacy of the Boomers? Summoning the amazing...
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Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays from the Sixties
by Eugene Davidson Synopsis As editor of Modern Age, in the 1960s, Eugene Davidson introduced each quarterly issue with a thought-provoking contemplation of one or another of the decade's dizzying events. Gathered together here for the first time, the essays in Reflections on a...
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Age of Great Dreams America in the 1960S
by David R Farber Publisher Comments In this book, David Farber grounds our understanding of the extraordinary history of the 1960s by linking the events of that era to our country's grand projects of previous decades. Farber's important study, based on years of research in archives and...
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The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s
by Chris Strodder Publisher Comments A celebration of the 1960s, this encyclopedia profiles the 250 most interesting personalities who significantly changed popular culture, including musicians, actors, directors, artists, athletes, politicians, writers, and...
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Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace: Conservative Women and the Crusade Against Communism
by Mary Brennan Publisher Comments In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II. Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret...
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The Last Innocent Year: America in 1964-The Beginning of the "Sixties"
by Jon Margolis Publisher Comments The year was 1964, John Kennedy was dead and the country was reeling from the aftermath of his assasination.The Warren Commission was sifting evidence.Lyndon Johnson was beginning to tear down Camelot to build the Great Society.Young men started burning...
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The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade
by Gerard J. Degroot Publisher Comments andldquo;If you remember the Sixties,andrdquo; quipped Robin Williams, andldquo;you werenandrsquo;t there.andrdquo; That was, of course, an oblique reference to the mind-bending drugs that clouded perceptionandmdash;yet time has proven an equally...
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Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s, and Oral History
by Jeff Kisseloff Synopsis The political activism of the American counterculture during the 1960s remains a subject blighted by misconceptions and stereotypes. To many, the political thought of the 1960s is synonymous with widespread drug abuse, failed social experiments, and...
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Destructive Generation
by Peter Collier Synopsis The compelling story of an intellectual journey into and out of the radical trenches....
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The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies
by Thomas Hine Publisher Comments < div> < div> In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America& #8217; s reach. < /div> < div> & nbsp; <...
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Sixties Going on Seventies (Perspectives on the Sixties)
by Nora Sayre Synopsis Now back in print, this revised edition contains the best of the original volume and brings the commentary up to date, allowing us to view the period with hindsight from the nineties. Nora Sayre guides us through our nation's transformation during an...
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Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History
by David Allyn Book News Annotation Drawing on first-hand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, historian Allyn traces the course of the events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Among the figures are sexual freedom fighters, feminists,...
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The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir
by Clane Hayward Synopsis Born in San Francisco just before the Summer of Love, Clane Hayward grew up on hippie communes throughout the west. Her poignantly funny, sometimes melancholy, and always riveting memoir recounts her extraordinary life up until her thirteenth birthday...
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From Ike To Mao and Beyond (06 Edition)
by Avakian Publisher Comments Spanning some of the most tumultuous and storied decades of American history, this account of one man's political life touches on what it takes to lead a revolution and how such a leader is made. Bob Avakian, radical activist and communist leader, takes...
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Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s
by Sherrie A Inness Publisher Comments Wedged between the idealism and activism of the 1960s and the avarice of the 1980s, the 1970s tend to be allocated a slender role in American cultural and social history. Only now have scholars begun to examine the suspect decade--perhaps in part because...
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Debating the 1960S : Liberal, Conservative, and Radical Perspectives (08 Edition)
by Michael W. Flamm Synopsis Debating the 1960s explores the decade through the controversies between radicals, liberals, and conservatives. The focus is on four main areas of contention social welfare; civil rights; foreign relations; and social order. The book also examines the...
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The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
by Van Gosse Synopsis How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? "The World the Sixties Made, the first academic collection to treat the last...
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Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties
by Peter Collier Synopsis More than 20 former radicals of the sixties come out of the political closet and look back at the dream that died....
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