Research Catalog

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Description

1. xv, 456 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

1. "From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade that exploded America's postwar order. On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision of the American Dream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights and antiwar movements. Assassinations, rioting, and the blowback of a "silent majority" mobilized by an emerging right, left a fragmented political landscape. Kevin Boyle's full-dimensioned history of the decade is authoritative and engrossing. The civil rights movement emerges from the grassroots activism of Montgomery, through the tragic violence of Birmingham, to the frustrations of King's Chicago campaign and a rising Black nationalism. The Vietnam war unfolds as misguided policy, high-stakes politics, and searing in-country experience. Women's challenges of gender norms yield landmark decisions on privacy rights, contraception, and abortion. With empathy its keynote, this definitive history of the 1960s recovers the humanity behind the decade's divisions"--

Alternative title

1. Shattering : America in the nineteen sixties
2. America in the 1960s
3. America in the nineteen sixties

Subject

1. 1961-1969
2. Nineteen sixties
3. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
4. HISTORY / Social History
5. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights
6. United States > History > 1961-1969
7. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Eddy street -- Twilight wars -- The beloved community -- The dead -- Bending -- The revolutions of 1965 -- Turning and turning -- Waist deep in the big muddy -- The cruelest months -- Nobodies -- Coming home.

Call number

1. JFE 22-310

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Boyle, Kevin, 1960- author.

Title

1. The shattering : America in the 1960s / Kevin Boyle.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1961-1969

Other form:

1. ebook version : 9780393356076

LCCN

1. 2021022377

Other standard identifier

1. 40030827067

ISBN

1. 9780393355994 hardcover
2. 0393355993 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 22-310