Bibliograph

And the crooked places made straight, the struggle for social change in the 1960s, David Chalmers

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And the crooked places made straight, the struggle for social change in the 1960s, David Chalmers

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

And the crooked places made straight

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

David Chalmers

Series statement

The American moment

Sub title

the struggle for social change in the 1960s

Summary

David Chalmers's widely acclaimed overview of the 1960s describes how the civil rights movement touched off a growing challenge to traditional values and arrangements. Chalmers recounts the judicial revolution that set national standards for race, politics, policing, and privacy. He examines the long, losing war on poverty and the struggle between the media and the government over the war in Vietnam. He follows feminism's "second wave" and the emergence of the environmental, consumer, and citizen action movements. He also explores the worlds of rock, sex, and drugs, and the entwining of the youth culture, the counterculture, and the American marketplace. This newly revised edition covers the conservative counter-revolution and cultural wars. It carries the legacy of the 1960s forward: from Tom Hayden's idealistic 1962 Port Huron Statement through Newt Gingrich's 1994 "Contract with America" and Grover Norquist's twenty-first century "Tax Payer's Protection Pledge."

Target audience

adult

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