Table of Contents:
Preface · vii
Acknowledgments for the Third Edition · xi
About the Author · xiii
Introduction
Cold War America: Seedbed of the 1960s · 1
Won the War, Lost the Peace , 1 · Searching for Subversives , 4 · Ike Takes Charge , 6 · Creeping Conformity , 7 Happy Days , 9 · Seeds of Discontent , 10 · Rebels Without a Cause , 16 · Great Expectations , 18
Chapter 1
The Years of Hope and Idealism, 1960—1963 · 19
The Torch Has Been Passed , 22 · Communism Abroad , 26 · Civil Rights at Home , 27 · Khrushchev , 30 · Prodding JFK , 31 · “One Hell of a Gamble,” 34 · King , 35 · Diem , 40 · Kennedy , 41
Chapter 2
The Pinnacle of Liberalism, 1964—1965 · 45
The Rights Revolution , 46 · Johnson Liberalism , 48 · Freedom Summer , 52 · Sixties Generation , 55 · Tonkin Gulf and the 1964 Election , 59 · Launching the Great Society , 61 LBJ Expands Civil Rights , 63 · LBJ Americanizes the Vietnam War , 65 · Great Society , 67
Chapter 3
Days of Decision, 1965—1967 · 74
“A Time Bomb of Black Rage,” 74 · “We’ll Lick Them,” 77 · Black Power! , 81 Riots, Rebellion, and Responses , 84 · My Country, Right or Wrong? , 87 · Summer of Discontent , 93 · Summer of Love , 96 · “Vietnam Is Here,” 99
Chapter 4
1968 · 103
LBJ’s Decline and Fall , 106 · “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” 109 · Revolution? , 110 Gene and Bobby , 115 · The Silent Majority , 116 · Chicago 1968 , 119: 1968 Finale , 124
Chapter 5
From Counterculture to Sixties Culture · 129
“There Must Be Some Way Out of Here,” 131 · Weltanschauung , 140 · Builders of the Dawn , 143 Tribal Gatherings , 146 · Establishment’s Nightmare , 147 “America Will Never Be the Same Again,” 150
Chapter 6
Days of Discord, 1969—1970 · 153
Nixon , 153 · Third-World Revolutionaries and Militants , 158 · Empowerment , 163 · Liberation , 168 “‘Enough!’ to War,” 173 · Green Power , 177 Civil War , 178
Chapter 7
The Climax and Demise of the Sixties, 1970—1973 · 182
Sixties Culture , 182 · Strike for Equality , 183 · Nixon , 185 Vietnam: Fatal Wounds , 187 · Think Global: Act Local , 193 · “Women in Revolt,” 195 · Climax , 198 New Democrats versus Nixon , 200 · Demise , 207
Legacies
The Decade of Tumult and Change · 210
Politics , 210 · Minorities , 213 · Women , 215 · Students , 216 Foreign Policy , 217 · Culture , 219
Additional Reading · 223